Mark 5:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet.

Cross References

Psalm 105:18

His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;

Mark 5:3

He was living in the place of the dead: and no man was able to keep him down, no, not with a chain;

Mark 5:5

And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

Luke 8:29

For he gave an order to the evil spirit to come out of the man. For frequently it would take a grip of him: and he was kept under control, and prisoned with chains; but parting the chains in two, he would be sent by the driving of the evil spirit into waste places.