Mark 9:14-29

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁴ And when He came to His disciples, He saw a great multitude around them, and the scribes disputing with them.

¹⁵ And immediately all the people, when they saw Him, were amazed and ran to Him and greeted Him.

¹⁶ Then He asked the scribes, “What are you disputing among yourselves?”

¹⁷ And one of the crowd answered, and said, “Master, I have brought my son to You, who has a mute spirit!

¹⁸ And wherever I have taken him, the spirit has seized him. And he foams and gnashes his teeth and pines away. And I asked Your disciples to cast him out and they could not.”

¹⁹ Then Jesus answered him, and said, “O faithless generation! How long now shall I be with you? How long now shall I put up with you?! Bring him to Me.”

²⁰ So they brought him to Jesus. And as soon as the spirit saw Him, he seized the child. And he fell down on the ground wallowing and foaming.

²¹ Then He asked his father, “How long has he been this way?” And he said, “His whole childhood.

²² “And often he casts him into the fire, or into the water, to destroy him. But if You can do anything, help us and have compassion upon us.”

²³ And Jesus said to him, “If you can believe it, all things are possible to the one who believes.”

²⁴ And immediately the father of the child, crying with tears, said, “Lord, I believe! Help my unbelief!”

²⁵ When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you come out of him! And enter into him no more!”

²⁶ Then the spirit cried, and seized the child again, and came out. And the child was as one dead; so much so that many said, “He is dead.”

²⁷ But Jesus took his hand and lifted him up. And he arose.

²⁸ And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him secretly, “Why couldn’t we cast him out?”

²⁹ And He said to them, “This kind can come forth by no other means but prayer and fasting.”