Mark 9:21
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.
Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
22 “It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
23 “If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”
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.
Compare
- BSB
- Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
- KJV
- And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
- WEB
- He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has been happening to him?” He said, “From childhood.
- ASV
- And he asked his father, How long time is it since this hath come unto him? And he said, From a child.
- DARBY
- And he asked his father, How long a time is it that it has been like this with him? And he said, From childhood;
- BLB
- And He questioned his father, “How long a time is it that this has been with him?” And he said, “From childhood.”
- ÅB
- Og Jesus spurte hans far: Hvor lang tid har han hatt det slik? Han sa: Fra barndommen av;
- OTB
- Jesus spurte guttens far: «Hvor lenge har han hatt det slik?» Han svarte: «Fra barndommen.
- B1930
- Og Jesus spurte hans far: Hvor lang tid har han hatt det slik? Han sa: Fra barndommen av;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 9:20–21
His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.
Read in contextActs 9:33
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
Read in contextJohn 5:5–6
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
Read in contextMark 5:25
And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
Read in contextLuke 8:43
including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
Read in contextActs 3:2
And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
Read in contextJob 14:1
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Read in contextLuke 13:16
Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
Read in context