Mark 9:2-29

21Six days later, Jesus took with Him 2Peter and 3James and John, and brought them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them; 3and 4His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them. 4Elijah appeared to them along with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus. 5Peter said to Jesus, “5Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; 6let us make three 7tabernacles, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” 6For he did not know what to answer; for they became terrified. 7Then a cloud 8formed, overshadowing them, and 9a voice 10came out of the cloud, “11This is My beloved Son, 12listen to Him!” 8All at once they looked around and saw no one with them anymore, except Jesus alone.

913As they were coming down from the mountain, He 14gave them orders not to relate to anyone what they had seen, 15until the Son of Man rose from the dead. 10They 16seized upon 17that statement, discussing with one another 18what rising from the dead meant. 11They asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that 19Elijah must come first?” 12And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of 20the Son of Man that 21He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt? 13But I say to you that Elijah has 22indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wished, just as it is written of him.”

1423When they came back to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them. 15Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were 24amazed and began running up to greet Him. 16And He asked them, “What are you discussing with them?” 17And one of the crowd answered Him, “Teacher, I brought You my son, possessed with a spirit which makes him mute; 18and 25whenever it seizes him, it 26slams him to the ground and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth and 27stiffens out. I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it.” 19And 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!” 20They brought 28the 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. 21And He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22It 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!” 23And Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ 29All things are possible to him who believes.” 24Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.” 25When Jesus saw that 30a crowd was 31rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You deaf and mute spirit, I 32command you, come out of him and do not enter him 33again.” 26After 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!” 27But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he got up. 28When He came 34into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, “Why could we not drive it out?” 29And He said to them, “This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer.”