Mark 5:4

4 He had often been chained hand and foot, but he would snap the chains and break the irons off his feet, and no one was strong enough to control him.

Mark 5:4 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 5:4

Because that he had been often bound with fetters and
chains
Trial had been made several times, to no purpose; his arms had been bound with chains, and his feet with fetters, which was very proper to prevent doing hurt to himself, and injury to others:

and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters
broken in pieces;
as if they had been twine threads; such was his strength, through the force of madness, and the possession of Satan, and his diabolical influence:

neither could any man tame him;
by any methods whatever; even such who undertook the cure of madness, or to exorcise those that were possessed: this man was so furious and outrageous, that he was not to be managed any way, either by art or force.

Mark 5:4 In-Context

2 As soon as he disembarked, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the burial caves to meet him.

3 He lived in the burial caves; and no one could keep him tied up, not even with a chain.

4 He had often been chained hand and foot, but he would snap the chains and break the irons off his feet, and no one was strong enough to control him.

5 Night and day he wandered among the graves and through the hills, howling and gashing himself with stones.

6 Seeing Yeshua from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him