Mark 5:3

a man with an impure spirit, who kept among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains:

1770 John Worsley 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 when He was come out of the ship, immediately there met Him from the tombs,

4for he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been pulled asunder by him, and the fetters broken; and no man could tame him:

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Cross References

Mark 9:18and wherever it seizeth him, it convulseth him; and he fometh, and gnasheth his teeth, and thus he pineth away: and I desired 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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