The Healing of a Boy with a Demon^(A)

¹⁴ When they came to the crowd, a man came to Him and knelt before Him, saying, ¹⁵ “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers terribly. He often falls into the fire and often into the water. ¹⁶ I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

¹⁷ Then Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” ¹⁸ Jesus rebuked the demon, and he came out of him. And the child was healed instantly.

¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast him out?”

²⁰ Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For truly I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. And nothing will be impossible for you. ²¹ But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”