Mark 5:3

And he dwelt in the place of sepulchres; and no one could confine him with chains:

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 as he went out of the ship, there met him from the place of sepulchres a man in whom was an unclean spirit.

4because, as often as he had been confined with fetters and chains, he had broken the chains and burst the fetters: and no one could subdue him.

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Cross References

Mark 9:18And wherever he seizeth him, he shaketh and teareth him: and he gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples, to cast him out; and 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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