who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain;

Not even with a chain could any man bind him, for he had been bound with fetters and chains again and again, and had snapped the chains, and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him.

But He would not allow it. "Go home to your family," He said, "and report to them all that the Lord has done for you, and the mercy He has shown you."

And he wondered at the want of faith shown by the people. Jesus went round the villages, one after another, teaching.

For Herod himself had given orders to arrest John and to chain him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married.

And his raiment did shine, and was made very white, even as snow: so white as no fuller can make upon the earth.