009:023 "'If I possibly can!'" replied Jesus; "why, everything is
possible to him who believes."
009:024 Immediately the father cried out, "I do believe:
strengthen my weak faith."
009:025 Then Jesus, seeing that an increasing crowd was running towards Him, rebuked the foul spirit, and said to it, "Dumb and deaf spirit, *I* command you, come out of him and never enter into him again."
009:026 So with a loud cry he threw the boy into fit after fit, and came out. The boy looked as if he were dead, so that most of them said he was dead;
009:027 but Jesus took his hand and raised him up, and he stood
on his feet.
009:028 After the return of Jesus to the house His disciples asked
Him privately, "How is it that we could not expel the spirit?"
009:029 "An evil spirit of this kind," He answered, "can only be driven
out by prayer."
009:030 Departing thence they passed through Galilee, and He was
unwilling that any one should know it;
009:031 for He was teaching His disciples, and telling them, "The Son of Man is to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will put Him to death; and after being put to death, in three days He will rise to life again."
009:032 They, however, did not understand what He meant, and were afraid
to question Him.