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Mark 5:4
Because that when hee was often bounde with fetters and chaines, he plucked the chaines asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces, neither could any man tame him.
Mark 5:4 · Geneva Bible
Mark 5:4 in other translations
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.
Though he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him.
because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.
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In context
1 And they came ouer to the other side of the sea into the countrey of the Gadarens.
2 And when he was come out of the shippe, there met him incontinently out of the graues, a man which had an vncleane spirit:
3 Who had his abiding among the graues, and no man could binde him, no not with chaines:
4 Because that when hee was often bounde with fetters and chaines, he plucked the chaines asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces, neither could any man tame him.
5 And alwayes both night and day he cryed in the mountaines, and in the graues, and strooke himselfe with stones.
6 And when he saw Iesus afarre off, he ranne, and worshipped him,
7 And cryed with a loude voyce, and saide, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus the Sonne of the most high God? I will that thou sweare to me by God, that thou torment me not.
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