Mark 5:4

New American Bible - revised edition

In fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

Cross References

Psalm 105:18

They shackled his feet with chains; collared his neck in iron,

Mark 5:3

The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain.

Mark 5:5

Night and day among the tombs and on the hillsides he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones.

Luke 8:29

For he had ordered the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (It had taken hold of him many times, and he used to be bound with chains and shackles as a restraint, but he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)