who dwelt among the tombs; by this time no one could bind him, not even with a chain,

for he had often been bound with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters ??nobody could tame him.

There he could not do any miracle, beyond laying his hands on a few sick people and curing them.

For this Herod had sent and arrested John and bound him in prison on account of his marriage to Herodias the wife of his brother Philip;

They struck him on the head with a stick and spat upon him and bent their knees to him in homage.