Mark 5:3

and he dwelt in the place of tombs; and with chains no man could bind him:

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

In Context

2And when he had come from the vessel, there met him from the place of tombs a man who had an unclean spirit,

4for, so often as with shackles and chains he had been bound, the chains he had broken, and the shackles he had burst asunder; and no man could subdue him.

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Cross References

Mark 9:18and when he seizeth him, he dasheth him, and teareth and grindeth his teeth, and he becometh dry. And I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out, but they could not.

Matthew Henry on Mark 5:2-21

The Expulsion of Legion. 1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and… Read the whole commentary →

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