Mark 5:3
Good News Translation
and lived among the tombs. Nobody could keep him tied with chains any more;

New Revised Standard Version
He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with a chain;

Contemporary English Version
from the graveyard where he had been living. No one was able to tie the man up anymore, not even with a chain.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.

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Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.

Mark 9:18-22 Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him: and he foameth and gnasheth with the teeth and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not. . . .

Isaiah 65:4 That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.

Daniel 4:32,33 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him: for he doth according to his will, as well with the powers of heaven, as among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none that can resist his hand, and say to him: Why hast thou done it? . . .

Luke 8:29 For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For many times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in fetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the deserts.

Context
The Demons and the Pigs
2And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit, 3Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains. 4For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.…
Cross References
Mark 5:2
And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit,

Mark 5:4
For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.

Mark 5:2
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