Mark 5:2-4

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²When Jesus got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him, ³and the man lived in the ^[a]tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with chains. ⁴For he had often been bound with shackles [for the feet] and with chains, and he tore apart the chains and broke the shackles into pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue and tame him.

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Mark 5:3 These probably were burial places built above the ground, or natural caves in the hillside. Cave tombs often had two chambers, one of which remained empty as long as relatives were still alive. Such tombs frequently were used as shelter by lepers, demoniacs, and the poor.