Mark 5:2

out of the tombs These tombs were either natural caves or recesses hewn by art out of the rock, often so large as to be supported with columns, and with cells upon their sides for the reception of the dead. Such places were regarded as unclean because of the dead men's bones which were there (Numbers 19:11; Numbers 19:16; Matthew 23:27). Such tombs can still be traced in more than one of the ravines on the eastern side of the Lake. Thomson's Land and the Book, p. 376.

a man St Matthew (Matthew 8:28) mentions two demoniacs, St Luke (Luke 8:27), like St Mark, only speaks of one. Probably one was better known in the country round than the other, or one was so much fiercer that the other was hardly taken any account of. "Amid all the boasted civilisation of antiquity, there existed no hospitals, no penitentiaries, no asylums; and unfortunates of this class, being too dangerous and desperate for human intercourse, could only be driven forth from among their fellow-men, and restrained from mischief by measures at once inadequate and cruel." Farrar's Life of Christ, i. p. 334.

no, not with chains This is a general expression for any bondsconfining the hands or feet. Comp. Acts 21:33; Ephesians 6:20; Revelation 20:1; fetterswere restricted to the feet.