Healing of a Boy with an Unclean Spirit; Jesus Predicts His Passion Again
Mark 9:14-32
14And when they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them.15And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were amazed, and running up they greeted him.16And he asked them, "What are you arguing about with one another?"17And one from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you; he has a mute spirit."18And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down violently; he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they were not able.19He answered them and said, "O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."20And they brought him to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately convulsed him; he fell to the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.21And he asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" He said, "From childhood.22And often it has thrown him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you are able, help us, having compassion on us."23Jesus said to him, "If you are able—all things are possible for the one who believes."24Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief."25When Jesus saw that a crowd was running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again."26And after crying out and convulsing him violently, it came out; the boy became like one dead, so that many said he had died.27But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him, and he arose.28And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why were we not able to cast it out?"29And he said to them, "This kind cannot come out by anything except prayer."30And leaving there, they passed through Galilee, and he did not want anyone to know.31For he was teaching his disciples and saying to them, "The Son of Man is delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and after he is killed, he will rise after three days."32But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.