Mark 9:21-33

²¹“How long has he been like this?” Jesus asked the boy's father.

²²“From his childhood,” he answered; “and it has often thrown him into fire and into water to put an end to his life; but, if you can possibly do anything, take pity on us, and help us!”

²³“Why say ‘possibly’?” Jesus replied. “Everything is possible for one who has faith.”

²⁴The boy's father immediately cried out, “I have faith; help my want of faith!”

²⁵But, when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly collecting, he rebuked the foul spirit, “Deaf and dumb spirit, it is I who command you. Come out from him and never enter him again.”

²⁶With a loud cry the spirit threw the boy into repeated convulsions, and then came out from him. The boy looked like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead.

²⁷But Jesus took his hand, and lifted him; and he stood up.

²⁸When Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn't we drive it out?”

²⁹“A spirit of this kind,” he said, “can be driven out only by prayer.”

³⁰Leaving that place, Jesus and his disciples went on their way through Galilee; but he did not wish anyone to know it,

³¹for he was instructing his disciples, and telling them — “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of his fellow men, and they will put him to death, but, when he has been put to death, he will rise again after three days.”

³²But the disciples did not understand his meaning and were afraid to question him.

³³They came to Capernaum. When Jesus had gone into the house, he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”