Mark 9:17
And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;
KJV
καὶ ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ εἷς ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου, διδάσκαλε, ἤνεγκα τὸν υἱόν μου πρὸς σέ, ἔχοντα πνεῦμα ἄλαλον,
Greek NT
qui ubicumque eum apprehenderit, allidit illum, et spumat, et stridet dentibus, et arescit : et dixi discipulis tuis ut ejicerent illum, et non potuerunt.
Vulgate
And one of the multitude answered him, Teacher, I brought unto thee my son, who hath a dumb spirit;
ASV
Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him: and he foameth and gnasheth with the teeth and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ εἷς ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου — SBLGNT
- ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ εἷς … ὄχλου — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀποκριθεὶς εἷς … ὄχλου εἶπεν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§649As for the Son, he effects his own Resurrection by virtue of his divine power. Jesus announces that the Son of man will have to suffer much, die, and then rise.516 Elsewhere he affirms explicitly: "I lay down my life, that I may take it again. . . I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again."517 "We believe that Jesus died and rose again."518
Cross-references
- Luke 11:14 — And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.
- Mark 7:25 — For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
- Mark 9:25 — When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
- Matt 9:32 — As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.
- Phlm 1:10 — I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: