Mark 5:4

4 For oft times [For oft] he was bound in stocks and chains, and he had broken the chains, and had broken the stocks to small gobbets, and no man might make him tame [+and no man might daunt him/might tame 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 And after that he was gone out of the boat, at once [anon] a man in an unclean spirit ran out of the burials to him.

3 Which man had an house in burials [+That had an house in graves, or burials], and neither with chains now might any man bind him.

4 For oft times [For oft] he was bound in stocks and chains, and he had broken the chains, and had broken the stocks to small gobbets, and no man might make him tame [+and no man might daunt him/might tame him].

5 And evermore [And ever], night and day, in burials and in hills, he was crying and beating himself with stones.

6 And he saw Jesus afar, and ran, and worshipped him.