Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³⁷ And the next day, as they came down from the hill, a large crowd met him. ³⁸ And a man from the crowd cried out, saying, Teacher, I beg you, look upon my son, for he is all that I have. ³⁹ And see, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he shouts out. And it tears him so that he foams at the mouth, and with much pain departs from him when he has battered him. ⁴⁰ And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.

⁴¹ Jesus answered and said, O generation without faith and perverse, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring your son here.

⁴² And as the boy was yet coming, the fiend rent him and tore him. ⁴³ And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him to his father. And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God.

While everyone marvelled at all the things that he did, he said to his disciples,