Mark 5:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.

Cross References

Psalm 105:18

with chains of iron around his legs and neck.

Mark 5:3

from the graveyard where he had been living. No one was able to tie the man up any more, not even with a chain.

Mark 5:5

Night and day he was in the graveyard or on the hills, yelling and cutting himself with stones.

Luke 8:29

He said this because Jesus had already told the evil spirit to go out of him. The man had often been attacked by the demon. And even though he had been bound with chains and leg irons and kept under guard, he smashed whatever bound him. Then the demon would force him out into lonely places.