¹⁷ And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has ^(A)a spirit that makes him mute. ¹⁸ And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and ^(B)they were not able.”

²⁵ And when Jesus saw that ^(A)a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, ^(B)“You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”