22. “It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion and help us!”
23. “‘If You can’?” Yeshua said to him. “All things are possible for one who believes!”
24. Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I believe! Help my unbelief!”
25. When Yeshua saw that a crowd was gathering fast, He rebuked the unclean spirit, telling it, “I command you, deaf and mute spirit, come out of him and do not ever enter him again!”
26. After howling and shaking the boy wildly, it came out. The boy became so much like a corpse that many were saying, “He’s dead!”
27. But Yeshua took him by the hand and lifted him, and the boy stood up.
28. After Yeshua came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him in private, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
29. And He said to them, “This kind cannot come out except by prayer.”
30. They left from there and passed through the Galilee. Yeshua didn’t want anyone to know,
31. for He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, three days later He will rise up.”
32. But the disciples didn’t understand this statement, and they were afraid to question Him about it.
33. Then they came to Capernaum. And when Yeshua was in the house, He began to ask the disciples, “What were you discussing on the way?”
34. But they kept quiet, because on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.
35. Sitting down, He called the Twelve and said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be least of all and the servant of everyone.”
36. Taking a small child, He set him in the midst of them. And taking him in His arms, He said to them,