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Immediately the boy'sfathercried out and said, "I do believe; help my unbelief."
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When Jesussaw that 1a crowd was rapidlygathering, He rebuked the uncleanspirit, saying to it, "You deaf and mutespirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again."
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After crying out and throwing him into terribleconvulsions, it came out; and the boy became so muchlike a corpse that most of them said, "He is dead!"
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But Jesustook him by the hand and raised him; and he got up.
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When He came2into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately*, "Why*could we not drive it out?"
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And He said to them, "Thiskindcannot*come out by anything but prayer."
Death and Resurrection Foretold
303From there they went out and began to gothroughGalilee, and He did not wantanyone to know about it.
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For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, "4The Son of Man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will risethreedayslater."
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But 5they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.
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6They came to Capernaum; and when He was in 7the house, He began to question them, "What were you discussing on the way?"
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But they keptsilent, for on the way8they had discussed with oneanotherwhich of them was the greatest.