Mark 9:20-41

²⁰They brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw him into a convulsion. The boy fell on the ground and foamed at the mouth.

²¹Jesus asked his father, “How long has he been like this?” The father said, “Since childhood.

²²It has often thrown him into the fire or into the waters and tried to destroy him. If you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us.”

²³Jesus said to him, “'If you are able'? All things are possible for the one who believes.”

²⁴Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe! Help my unbelief!”

²⁵When Jesus saw the crowd running to them, he rebuked the unclean spirit and said, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter into him again.”

²⁶It cried out and convulsed the boy greatly and then came out. The boy looked like one who was dead, so that many said, “He is dead.”

²⁷But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and the boy stood up.

²⁸When Jesus came into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”

²⁹He said to them, “This kind cannot be cast out except by prayer.”

³⁰They went out from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know where they were,

³¹for he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will put him to death. When he has been put to death, after three days he will rise again.”

³²But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask him.

³³Then they came to Capernaum. After he entered the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”

³⁴But they were silent. For they had been arguing with one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

³⁵Sitting down, he called the twelve together and he said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

³⁶He took a little child and placed him in their midst. He took him in his arms and said to them,

³⁷“Whoever receives such a child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, does not receive me but the one who sent me.”

³⁸John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we stopped him, because he does not follow us.”

³⁹But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name and can soon afterwards say anything bad about me.

⁴⁰Whoever is not against us is for us.

⁴¹Whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward.