Mark 5:4

for, 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.

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

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3and he dwelt in the place of tombs; and with chains no man could bind him:

5And at all time, by night and by day, he was in the place of tombs, and in the mountains, crying out, and bruising himself with stones.

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Cross References

James 3:7For every nature of animals, and of birds, and reptiles of the sea, and of the dry land, have been subjected to the human nature;

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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