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24 Immediately the father of the boy cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

25 Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked[a] the unclean spirit,[b] saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” 26 It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy[c] looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:25 tn Or “commanded” (often with the implication of a threat, L&N 33.331).
  2. Mark 9:25 sn Unclean spirit refers to an evil spirit.
  3. Mark 9:26 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the boy) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.