37 Het gebeurde de volgende dag, toen zij van de berg afdaalden, dat een grote menigte Hem tegemoet kwam.38 En zie, een man uit de menigte riep: Meester, ik bid U, kijk toch naar mijn zoon, want hij is mijn enig kind.39 En zie, een geest grijpt hem en meteen schreeuwt hij; en hij doet hem zo stuiptrekken dat hij schuim op zijn mond krijgt; hij gaat nauwelijks bij hem vandaan en mishandelt hem.40 En ik heb Uw discipelen gevraagd hem uit te drijven, maar zij konden het niet.41 Jezus antwoordde en zei: O ongelovig en ontaard geslacht, hoelang zal Ik nog bij u zijn en u verdragen? Breng uw zoon hier.42 Terwijl hij naar Hem toe ging, wierp de demon hem tegen de grond en deed hem stuiptrekken. Maar Jezus bestrafte de onreine geest, genas het kind en gaf het aan zijn vader terug.43 Zij allen stonden versteld van de grootheid van God. Toen zij zich allen verwonderden over alle dingen die Hij deed, zei Jezus tegen Zijn discipelen:
Mark 9
14 And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.15 And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him.16 And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?”17 And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute.18 And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.”19 And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”20 And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.21 And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.22 And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”23 And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”25 And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”26 And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.”27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.28 And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”
Matthew 17
14 And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him,15 said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water.16 And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.”17 And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly.19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”20 He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
