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- When they came back to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.
- Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were amazed and began running up to greet Him.
- And He asked them, "What are you discussing with them?"
- And one of the crowd answered Him, "Teacher, I brought You my son, possessed with a spirit which makes him mute;
- and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth and stiffens out. I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it."
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- And He answered them and said, "O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!"
- They brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into a convulsion, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.
- And He asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood.
- "It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!"
- And Jesus said to him, " 'If You can?' All things are possible to him who believes."
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- Immediately the boy's father cried out and said, "I do believe; help my unbelief."
- When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again."
- After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, "He is dead!"
- But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he got up.
- When He came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, "Why could we not drive it out?"
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- And He said to them, "This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer."
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