Mark 5:4

The Text-Critical English New Testament

For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he tore the chains apart and broke the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

Cross References

Mark 5:3

This man lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him, not even with chains.

Mark 5:5

Night and day, on the mountains and among the tombs, he would continually cry out and cut himself with stones.

Luke 8:29

For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, but he would break the chains and be driven by the demon into desolate places.