Mark 5:4

for 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:

1770 John Worsley NT

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

3a man with an impure spirit, who kept among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains:

5and he was always night and day upon the hills and among the sepulchres bawling, and gashing himself with stones.

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Cross References

James 3:7For every kind of wild beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fishes, is tamed and hath been tamed by mankind:

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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