Mark 9:13-34

¹³Still, I say to you that ‘Elijah’ has also come, and they did to him as they wished, as it is written about him.”

¹⁴Upon coming to the disciples, He saw a large crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.

¹⁵Well as soon as the crowd saw Him they were excited and ran to greet Him.

¹⁶He asked the scribes, “What are you discussing with them?”

¹⁷In answer a man in the crowd said: “Teacher, I brought you my son, who has a mute spirit.

¹⁸And wherever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. Indeed, I spoke to your disciples, that they might cast it out, but they could not.”

¹⁹But He answered him by saying: “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you, how long shall I put up with you? Bring him to me!”

²⁰So they brought him to Him. Upon seeing Him the spirit convulsed him, and falling to the ground he started wallowing, foaming at the mouth.

²¹Then He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said: “From childhood.

²²Really, it has often thrown him both into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

²³Jesus said to him, “It's ‘if you can believe’; all things are possible to the one who believes.”

²⁴Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

²⁵When Jesus saw that the crowd was running up, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I am commanding you, get out of him and never enter him again!”

²⁶Then it yelled, convulsed him violently, and came out. Well he looked to be dead; so much so that many said, “He's dead.”

²⁷But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he stayed on his feet.

²⁸Well upon His entering a house His disciples asked Him privately, “Why couldn't we cast it out?”

²⁹He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing except prayer and fasting.”

³⁰Having gone out from there they were passing through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know;

³¹because He was teaching His disciples and saying to them, “The Son of the Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and once killed he will rise on the third day.”

³²But they were not understanding this information, yet were afraid to ask Him.

³³Then He came to Capernaum; and once in the house He asked them, “What were you debating among yourselves on the road?”

³⁴But they kept silent, because on the road they had debated among themselves who was greater.