²⁴ At once the father of the boy gave [an ^[a]eager, ^[b]piercing, inarticulate] cry with tears, and he said, Lord, I believe! [Constantly] help my ^[c]weakness of faith!

²⁵ But when Jesus noticed that a crowd [of people] came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, You dumb and deaf spirit, I charge you to come out of him and never go into him again.

²⁶ And after giving a [hoarse, clamoring, fear-stricken] shriek of anguish and convulsing him terribly, it came out; and the boy lay [pale and motionless] like a corpse, so that many of them said, He is dead.