Mark 9:28 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And when Jesus had come into a house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not drive out the evil spirit [from that boy]?”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And when He had gone indoors, His disciples asked Him privately, Why could not we drive it out?

American Standard Version (1901)

And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, How is it that we could not cast it out?

Common English Bible

After Jesus went into a house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we throw this spirit out?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he said to them, "This kind is able to be expelled by nothing other than prayer and fasting."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he said to them: This kind can go out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

Mark 9:28 Cross References

Matthew 13:10

Jesus’ disciples came and said to Him, “why are you speaking to them [i.e., the large crowds] by using parables?”

Matthew 13:36

He then left the crowds and went into the house. [While there] His disciples came to Him, and said, “Explain to us [the meaning of] the parable of the weeds in the field.”

Matthew 15:15

And Peter said to Him, “Explain the parable to us.”

Mark 2:1

After Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, it became known that He was [back] at home [i.e., possibly at the house of Peter and Andrew, where He was staying. See 1:29].

Mark 3:20

Soon a crowd assembled again so that they could not even eat a meal [i.e., without people crowding all around them].

Mark 4:10

And when He was alone those people who gathered around Him, along with the twelve apostles, asked Him what the parables meant.

Mark 4:34

And He did not speak to them [i.e., concerning the kingdom] without using a parable, but He explained everything to His own disciples privately.

Mark 7:17

And when He had gone into the house away from the crowd His disciples asked Him about this parable.

Mark 9:27

But Jesus grasped his hand and lifted him up, and he arose [fully healed].

Mark 9:29

He answered them; “This kind [of spirit] cannot be driven out except by praying.”