Mark 5:4

because, 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.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 sepulchres; and no one could confine him with chains:

5And continually, by night and by day, he was in the place of sepulchres, and cried and wounded himself with stones.

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Cross References

James 3:7For all natures of beasts and birds and reptiles, of the sea or land, are subjugated by the nature of man.

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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