Mark 9:21-40

²¹And he asked his father, How long is it, since this hath befallen to him? And he said, From childhood;

²²and oft he hath put him into the fire, and into water, to lose him; but if thou mayest anything, help us, and have mercy on us.

²³And Jesus said to him, If thou mayest believe, all things be possible to a man that believeth.

²⁴And anon the father of the child cried with tears, and said, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

²⁵And when Jesus had seen the people running together, he menaced the unclean spirit, and said to him, Thou deaf and dumb spirit, I command thee, go out from him, and enter no more into him.

²⁶And he crying, and much wrenching him, went out from him; and he was made as dead, so that many said, that he was dead.

²⁷And Jesus held his hand, and lifted him up; and he rose.

²⁸And when he had entered into an house, his disciples asked him privily, Why might not we cast him out?

²⁹And he said to them, This kind in nothing may go out or This kind may not go out in anything, but in prayer and fasting.

³⁰And they went from thence, and went forth into Galilee; and they would not, that any man knew, or and he would not, that any man know.

³¹And he taught his disciples, and said to them, For man’s Son shall be betrayed into the hands of men, and they shall slay him, and he slain shall rise again on the third day.

³²And they knew not the word, and dreaded to ask him.

³³And they came to Capernaum. And when they were in the house, he asked them, What treated ye in the way?

³⁴And they were still; for they disputed among themselves in the way, who of them should be the greatest.

³⁵And he sat, and called the twelve, and said to them, If any man will be the first among you, he shall be the last of all, and the minister or the servant of all.

³⁶And he took a child, and set him in the middle or in the midst of them; and when he had embraced him, he said to them,

³⁷Whoever receiveth one of such children in my name, he receiveth me; and whoever receiveth me, he receiveth not me alone, but him that sent me.

³⁸John answered to him, and said, Master, we saw one casting out fiends in thy name, which pursueth not us, and we have forbidden him.

³⁹And Jesus said, Do not ye forbid him; for there is no man that doeth virtue in my name, and may soon speak evil of me.

⁴⁰He that is not against us, is for us.