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

²⁸ 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

²⁸ And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And when He had gone indoors, His disciples asked Him privately, Why could not we drive it out?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ 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

²⁸ After Jesus went into a house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we throw this spirit out?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ 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

²⁸ 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.”