"Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fe…" — Mark 5:4

Mark 5:4 · KJV

“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.”

— Mark 5:4

Verse 3

Who had {his} dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

Verse 5

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

Mark 5 — Context

And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

Who had {his} dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

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.

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

Cross References

James 3:7-8

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: {kind: Gr. nature} {mankind: Gr. nature of man}