Mark 9:21

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And Jesus questioning the father said, How long has he been like this? And he said, From a child.

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  • Acts 9:33 : 33 And there was a certain man there, named Aeneas, who for eight years had been in bed, without power of moving.
  • Acts 14:8 : 8 And at Lystra there was a certain man, who from birth had been without the use of his feet, never having had the power of walking.
  • Job 5:7 : 7 But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
  • Job 14:1 : 1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
  • Mark 5:25 : 25 And a woman, who had had a flow of blood for twelve years,
  • Luke 8:43 : 43 And a woman, who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had given all her money to medical men, and not one of them was able to make her well,
  • Luke 13:16 : 16 And is it not right for this daughter of Abraham, who has been in the power of Satan for eighteen years, to be made free on the Sabbath?
  • John 5:5-6 : 5 One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?
  • John 9:1 : 1 And when he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth.
  • John 9:20-21 : 20 In answer his father and mother said, We are certain that this is our son and that he was blind at birth: 21 But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.
  • Acts 3:2 : 2 And a certain man who from birth had had no power in his legs, was taken there every day, and put down at the door of the Temple which is named Beautiful, requesting money from those who went into the Temple;
  • Acts 4:22 : 22 For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.

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  • Mark 9:22-29
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    22 And frequently it has sent him into the fire and into the water, for his destruction; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us, and give us help.

    23 And Jesus said to him, If you are able! All things are possible to him who has faith.

    24 Straight away the father of the child gave a cry, saying, I have faith; make my feeble faith stronger.

    25 And when Jesus saw that the people came running together, he gave orders to the unclean spirit, saying to him, You, spirit, who are the cause of his loss of voice and hearing, I say to you, come out of him, and never again go into him.

    26 And after crying out and shaking him violently, it came out: and the child became like one dead; so that most of them said, He is dead.

    27 But Jesus took him by the hand, lifting him up; and he got up.

    28 And when he had gone into the house, his disciples said to him privately, Why were we unable to send it out?

    29 And he said to them, Nothing will make this sort come out but prayer.

  • Mark 9:16-20
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    16 And he said, What are you questioning them about?

    17 And one of the number said to him in answer, Master, I came to you with my son, who has in him a spirit which takes away his power of talking;

    18 And wherever it takes him, it puts him down violently, streaming at the lips and twisted with pain; and his strength goes from him; and I made a request to your disciples to send it out, and they were not able.

    19 And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.

    20 And they took him to him: and when he saw him, the spirit in him straight away became violent; and he went down on the earth, rolling about and streaming at the lips.

  • Luke 9:38-42
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    38 And a man from among them, crying out, said, Master, I make a request to you, give a thought to my son, for he is my only child:

    39 And see, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he gives a cry, twisted in pain and streaming at the lips, and when it goes away from him at last, he is marked as from blows.

    40 And I made a request to your disciples to send it out of him, but they were not able to do it.

    41 And Jesus said, O generation without faith and false in heart, how long will I have to be with you and put up with you? let your son come here.

    42 And while he was coming, he was pushed violently down and twisted by the evil spirit. But Jesus gave sharp orders to the unclean spirit, and made the boy well, and gave him back to his father.

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    14 And when they came to the people, a man went down on his knees to him, saying,

    15 Lord have mercy on my son: for he is off his head, and is in great pain; and frequently he goes falling into the fire, and frequently into the water.

    16 And I took him to your disciples, and they were not able to make him well.

    17 And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.

    18 And Jesus gave orders to the unclean spirit, and it went out of him: and the boy was made well from that hour.

    19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, Why were we not able to send it out?

  • Mark 1:25-26
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    25 And Jesus said to him sharply, Be quiet, and come out of him.

    26 And the unclean spirit, shaking him violently, and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.

  • Luke 8:27-30
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    27 And when he had come to the land, there came to him a certain man from the town who had evil spirits; and for a long time he had had no clothing on, and was not living in a house but in the place of the dead.

    28 And when he saw Jesus, he gave a loud cry and went down on the earth before him and in a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Do not be cruel to me.

    29 For he gave an order to the evil spirit to come out of the man. For frequently it would take a grip of him: and he was kept under control, and prisoned with chains; but parting the chains in two, he would be sent by the driving of the evil spirit into waste places.

    30 And Jesus said to him, What is your name? And he said, Legion; for a number of spirits had gone into him.

  • Mark 5:3-5
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    3 He was living in the place of the dead: and no man was able to keep him down, no, not with a chain;

    4 Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet.

    5 And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

  • 21 But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.

  • 40 And Jesus, stopping, gave orders that he was to come to him, and when he came near, he said to him,

  • 7 And crying out with a loud voice he said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, do not be cruel to me.

  • 19 And put the question to them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he was blind at birth? how is it then that he is now able to see?

  • 14 And he was sending an evil spirit out of a man who was without the power of talking. And it came about that when the spirit had gone the man had the power of talking; and the people were full of wonder.

  • 23 That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.

  • 35 And Jesus said to him, Be quiet, and come out of him. And when the evil spirit had put him down on the earth in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no damage.

  • 22 Then they took to him one with an evil spirit, who was blind and had no power of talking: and he made him well so that he had the power of talking and seeing.

  • 52 So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.

  • 23 And there was in their Synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he gave a cry,

  • 32 And they came to him with one who had no power of hearing and had trouble in talking; and they made a request to him to put his hands on him.

  • 21 And when his friends had news of it, they went out to get him, saying, He is off his head.

  • 32 And while they were going away, there came to him a man without the power of talking, and with an evil spirit.

  • 29 And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time?

  • 11 And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, went down before him, crying out, and saying, You are the Son of God.

  • 16 And those who had seen it gave them an account of what had been done to him who had the evil spirits, and of the fate of the pigs.

  • 10 And he made strong prayers to him not to send them away out of the country.