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When Yeshua saw that the crowd was closing in on them, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit! I command you: come out of him, and never go back into him again!"
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Shrieking and throwing the boy into a violent fit, it came out. The boy lay there like a corpse, so that most of the people said he was dead.
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But Yeshua took him by the hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.
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After Yeshua had gone indoors, his talmidim asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"
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He said to them "This is the kind of spirit that can be driven out only by prayer."
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After leaving that place, they went on through the Galil. Yeshua didn't want anyone to know,
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because he was teaching his talmidim. He told them, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men who will put him to death; but after he has been killed, three days later he will rise."
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But they didn't understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him.
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They arrived at K'far-Nachum. When Yeshua was inside the house, he asked them, "What were you discussing as we were traveling?"
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But they kept quiet; because on the way, they had been arguing with each other about who was the greatest.
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He sat down, summoned the Twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all."