17. And one out of the crowd answered him, Teacher, I brought to thee my son, who has a dumb spirit;
18. and wheresoever it seizes him it tears him, and he foams and gnashes his teeth, and he is withering away. And I spoke to thy disciples, that they might cast him out, and they could not.
19. But he answering them says, O unbelieving generation! how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him to me.
20. And they brought him to him. And seeing him the spirit immediately tore him; and falling upon the earth he rolled foaming.
21. And he asked his father, How long a time is it that it has been like this with him? And he said, From childhood;
22. and often it has cast him both into fire and into waters that it might destroy him: but if thou couldst do anything, be moved with pity on us, and help us.
23. And Jesus said to him, The 'if thou couldst' is if thou couldst believe: all things are possible to him that believes.
24. And immediately the father of the young child crying out said with tears, I believe, help mine unbelief.
25. But Jesus, seeing that the crowd was running up together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
26. And having cried out and torn him much, he came out; and he became as if dead, so that the most said, He is dead.
27. But Jesus, having taken hold of him by the hand, lifted him up, and he arose.
28. And when he was entered into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Wherefore could not we cast him out?
29. And he said to them, This kind can go out by nothing but by prayer and fasting.
30. And going forth from thence they went through Galilee; and he would not that any one knew it;
31. for he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into men's hands, and they shall kill him; and having been killed, after three days he shall rise again.