Mark 9:24-34

24 Immediately the boy's father cried out and said, "I do believe; help my unbelief."

25 When Jesus saw that ¹a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again."

26 After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, "He is dead!"

27 But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he got up.

28 When He came ²into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately *, "Why * could we not drive it out?"

29 And He said to them, "This kind cannot * come out by anything but prayer."

Death and Resurrection Foretold

30 ³From there they went out and began to go through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know about it.

31 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 rise three days later."

32 But ⁵they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

33 ⁶They came to Capernaum; and when He was in ⁷the house, He began to question them, "What were you discussing on the way?"

34 But they kept silent, for on the way ⁸they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest.

Cross References

• 1. Mark 9:15
• 2. Mark 2:1; Mark 7:17
• 3. Mark 9:30-32: {Matthew 17:22, 23; Luke 9:43-45}
• 4. Matthew 16:21; Mark 8:31; Mark 9:12
• 5. Luke 2:50; Luke 9:45; Luke 18:34; John 12:16
• 6. Mark 9:33-37: {Matthew 18:1-5; Luke 9:46-48}
• 7. Mark 3:19
• 8. Matthew 18:4; Mark 9:50; Luke 22:24

Footnotes

• [a] Or "running together"
• [b] Or "I Myself command"
• [c] Or "from now on"
• [d] Or "betrayed"
• [e] Lit "were not knowing"
• [f] Lit "had come"