Mark 9:18
16 “What are you disputing with them?” He asked.
17 Someone in the crowd replied, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a spirit that makes him mute.
Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”
19 “O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”
20 So they brought him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”
- KJV
- And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
- WEB
- and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”
- ASV
- and wheresoever it taketh him, it dasheth him down: and he foameth, and grindeth his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast it out; and they were not able.
- DARBY
- and 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.
- BLB
- And wherever it might seize him, it throws him down, and he foams and gnashes his teeth and is withering away. And I spoke to Your disciples that they might cast it out, and they did not have the strength.”
- ÅB
- og når den griper ham, sliter den i ham, og han fråder og skjærer tenner og visner bort; og jeg ba dine disipler drive den ut, og de var ikke i stand til det.
- OTB
- Når den tar tak i ham, kaster den ham til jorden. Han fråder, skjærer tenner og blir stiv. Jeg ba disiplene dine drive ut ånden, men de kunne ikke.»
- B1930
- og når den griper ham, sliter den i ham, og han fråder og skjærer tenner og visner bort; og jeg bad dine disipler drive den ut, og de var ikke i stand til det.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Mark 11:23
“Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will be done for him.
Read in contextMark 9:28–29
After Jesus had gone into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
Read in contextLuke 9:39–40
A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from him.
Read in contextMatthew 17:19–20
Afterward the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
Read in contextMark 9:20
So they brought him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
Read in contextMark 9:26
After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”
Read in contextMatthew 17:16
I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”
Read in contextActs 7:54
On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
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