Mark 9:14–29

¹⁴And when he came to the disciples he saw a great crowd around them, and scribes disputing against them. ¹⁵And immediately all the crowd seeing him were amazed, and running to him, saluted him. ¹⁶And he asked them, What do ye question with them about? ¹⁷And one out of the crowd answered him, Teacher, I brought to thee my son, who has a dumb spirit; ¹⁸and wheresoever it seizes him it tears him, and he foams and gnashes his teeth, and he is withering away. And I spoke to thy disciples, that they might cast him out, and they could not. ¹⁹But he answering them says, 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. And seeing him the spirit immediately tore him; and falling upon the earth he rolled foaming. ²¹And he asked his father, How long a time is it that it has been like this with him? And he said, From childhood; ²²and often it has cast him both into fire and into waters that it might destroy him: but if thou couldst do anything, be moved with pity on us, and help us. ²³And Jesus said to him, The ‘if thou couldst’ is if thou couldst believe: all things are possible to him that believes. ²⁴And immediately the father of the young child crying out said with tears, I believe, help mine unbelief. ²⁵But Jesus, seeing that the crowd was running up together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. ²⁶And having cried out and torn him much, he came out; and he became as if dead, so that the most said, He is dead. ²⁷But Jesus, having taken hold of him by the hand, lifted him up, and he arose. ²⁸And when he was entered into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Wherefore could not we cast him out? ²⁹And he said to them, This kind can go out by nothing but by prayer and fasting.