Mark 5:4

because of his having been, many times, with fetters and chains, bound, and the chains having been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters smashed, and no one was mighty enough to tame him;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

3who had his dwelling among the tombs, and, not even with a chain, any longer, was anyone able to bind him,—

5and, continually, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, was he crying aloud, and cutting himself in pieces with stones.

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Cross References

James 3:7For, every nature—both of wild beasts and of birds, both of reptiles and of things in the sea, is to be tamed, and hath been tamed, by 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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