Mark 9:21-40

²¹And he questioned his father, 'How long time is it since this came to him?' and he said, 'From childhood,

²²and many times also it cast him into fire, and into water, that it might destroy him; but if thou art able to do anything, help us, having compassion on us.'

²³And Jesus said to him, 'If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'

²⁴and immediately the father of the child, having cried out, with tears said, 'I believe, sir; be helping mine unbelief.'

²⁵Jesus having seen that a multitude doth run together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, 'Spirit — dumb and deaf — I charge thee, come forth out of him, and no more thou mayest enter into him;'

²⁶and having cried, and rent him much, it came forth, and he became as dead, so that many said that he was dead,

²⁷but Jesus, having taken him by the hand, lifted him up, and he arose.

²⁸And he having come into the house, his disciples were questioning him by himself — 'Why were we not able to cast it forth?'

²⁹And he said to them, 'This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.'

³⁰And having gone forth thence, they were passing through Galilee, and he did not wish that any may know,

³¹for he was teaching his disciples, and he said to them, 'The Son of Man is being delivered to the hands of men, and they shall kill him, and having been killed the third day he shall rise,'

³²but they were not understanding the saying, and they were afraid to question him.

³³And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he was questioning them, 'What were ye reasoning in the way among yourselves?'

³⁴and they were silent, for with one another they did reason in the way who is greater;

³⁵and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, 'If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

³⁶And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them,

³⁷'Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.'

³⁸And John did answer him, saying, 'Teacher, we saw a certain one in thy name casting out demons, who doth not follow us, and we forbade him, because he doth not follow us.'

³⁹And Jesus said, 'Forbid him not, for there is no one who shall do a mighty work in my name, and shall be able readily to speak evil of me:

⁴⁰for he who is not against us is for us;