Healing the Epileptic Boy
World Messianic Bible (WMB)
Mat 17:14–21
- 14 When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him and saying,
- 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.
- 16 So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”
- 17 Yeshua answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
- 18 Yeshua rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.
- 19 Then the disciples came to Yeshua privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
- 20 He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
- 21 But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.”
Mrk 9:14–29
- 14 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
- 15 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.
- 16 He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?”
- 17 One of the multitude answered, “Rabbi, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;
- 18 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”
- 19 He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”
- 20 They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.
- 21 He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has been happening to him?” He said, “From childhood.
- 22 Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
- 23 Yeshua said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
- 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
- 25 When Yeshua saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”
- 26 After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”
- 27 But Yeshua took him by the hand and raised him up; and he arose.
- 28 When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”
- 29 He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but by prayer and fasting.”
Luk 9:37–43
- 37 On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great multitude met him.
- 38 Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, “Rabbi, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only born child.
- 39 Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams; and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.
- 40 I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t.”
- 41 Yeshua answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
- 42 While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Yeshua rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
- 43 They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Yeshua did, he said to his disciples,