and demon-possession are two very different things, and it’s likely that the loose terminology people used at the time wasn’t meant to be medically precise. Anyway, Jesus deals with it. We pause there and hold before Jesus the person we’ve brought, about whom we seem able to do nothing. We watch as Jesus heals the boy, and we pray for healing for whoever it is on our hearts. And then he deals with the disciples. You couldn’t do it, he says, because of your little faith. He’s said it four times already