Mark 5:4
Good News Translation
many times his feet and his hands had been tied, but every time he broke the chains and smashed the irons on his feet. He was too strong for anyone to control him.

New Revised Standard Version
for he had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him.

Contemporary English Version
He had often been put in chains and leg irons, but he broke the chains and smashed the leg irons. No one could control him.

New American Bible
In fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.

tame.

James 3:7,8 For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of the rest is tamed and hath been tamed, by the nature of man. . . .

Context
The Demons and the Pigs
3Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains. 4For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him. 5And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.…
Cross References
Psalm 105:18
They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,

Mark 5:3
Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.

Mark 5:5
And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.

Luke 8:29
For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For many times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in fetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the deserts.

Mark 5:3
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