Mark 5:3

who had his dwelling among the tombs: neither was any one able to bind him with chains;

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 a man from the tombs, with an unclean spirit met Him, having come out of the ship;

4because frequently he had been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains were slipped off by him, and the fetters torn to pieces.

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Cross References

Mark 9:18And when he may take him, he lacerates him: and he froths, and gnashes his teeth, and pines away. And I said to thy disciples, that they should cast him out; and they were not able.

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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