Luke 9:38

The Passion Translation

A man in the crowd shouted desperately, “Please, Teacher, I beg of you, do something about my son, my only son.

Cross References

Genesis 44:20

We answered my lord, ‘We have an aged father and our youngest brother, who is a child of his old age. The child’s full brother is dead, so now he is the only child left of his mother, and his father loves him very much.’

Matthew 15:22

He encountered there a Canaanite woman who shouted out to him, “Lord, Son of David, show mercy to me! My daughter is horribly afflicted by a demon that torments her.”

Luke 7:12

As he approached the village, he met a multitude of people in a funeral procession, who were mourning as they carried the body of a young man to the cemetery. The boy was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow.

Luke 9:37

The next day, a massive crowd was waiting at the foot of the mountain to meet them.

Luke 9:39

An evil spirit possesses him and makes him scream out in torment, and hardly ever leaves him alone. It throws him into convulsions and he foams at the mouth. When it finally does leave him, he’s left with horrible bruises.