Mark 5:4
“Because that hee had bene often bound with fetters and chaines, and the chaines had bene plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.”
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Mark 5:4 Context
2And when hee was come out of the ship, immediatly there met him out of the tombes, a man with an vncleane spirit, 3Who had his dwelling among the tombs, and no man could binde him, no not with chaines: 4Because that hee had bene often bound with fetters and chaines, and the chaines had bene plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5And alwayes night and day, hee was in the mountaines, and in the tombes, crying, and cutting himselfe with stones. 6But when hee saw Iesus afarre off, he came and worshipped him,
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Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any [man] tame him.
- King James Version
because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.
- New American Standard Version (1995)