Mark 5:4 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴ He had often been bound with ropes and chains but had broken the chains off and torn the ropes to pieces. And no one had enough strength to subdue him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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.

Mark 5:4 Cross References

Mark 5:3

This man had been living in the graveyard and no one had been able to keep him tied up, not even with a chain.

Mark 5:5

And night and day, in the graveyard and in the mountains, he was always shouting out and cutting himself with [sharp] rocks.

Luke 8:29

For Jesus was commanding the evil spirits to be driven out of the man, because they had been controlling him for a long time. The man was continually being guarded and his hands and feet were bound with chains. [Sometimes] he broke loose from the chains and was driven into the desert by the evil spirits.