Mark 5:4

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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.

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.