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"Then, after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately,“Why couldn’t we cast it out?”"
— Mark 9:28, NET Bible
“And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?”
“And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, How is it that we could not cast it out? ”
“When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"”
“And he said to them: This kind can go out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.”
“And when he had gone into the house, his disciples said to him privately, Why were we unable to send it out?”
“And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?”
Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it,“Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said,“He is dead!”
But Jesus gently took his hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.
Then, after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately,“Why couldn’t we cast it out?”
He told them,“This kind can come out only by prayer.”
Second Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection They went out from there and passed through Galilee. But Jesus did not want anyone to know,
for he was teaching his disciples and telling them,“The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.”