Mark 5:4 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he tore the chains apart and broke the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For he had been bound often with shackles for the feet and handcuffs, but the handcuffs of [light] chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he rubbed and ground together and broke in pieces; and no one had strength enough to restrain or tame him.

American Standard Version (1901)

because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him.

Common English Bible

He had been secured many times with leg irons and chains, but he broke the chains and smashed the leg irons. No one was tough enough to control him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For having been bound often with shackles and chains, he had broken the chains and smashed the shackles; and no one had been able to tame him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Mark 5:4 Cross References

Mark 5:3

This man lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him, not even with chains.

Mark 5:5

Night and day, on the mountains and among the tombs, he would continually cry out and cut himself with stones.

Luke 8:29

For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, but he would break the chains and be driven by the demon into desolate places.