Mark 9:21
And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
KJV
καὶ ἐπηρώτησεν τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ· πόσος χρόνος ἐστὶν ὡς τοῦτο γέγονεν αὐτῷ; ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· ἐκ παιδιόθεν·
Greek NT
et frequenter eum in ignem, et in aquas misit ut eum perderet : sed si quid potes, adjuva nos, misertus nostri.
Vulgate
And he asked his father, How long time is it since this hath come unto him? And he said, From a child.
ASV
And oftentimes hath he cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do any thing, help us, having compassion on us.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- Ἐκ — SBLGNT
- Ἐκ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
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
2. And not for this only does He call him Elias everywhere, but to signify His perfect agreement with the Old Testament, and that this advent too is according to prophecy. Wherefore also He adds again, He came, and they knew him not, but have done unto him all things whatsoever they listed. Matthew 17:12 What means, all things whatsoever they listed? They cast him into prison, …
Cross-references
- Acts 9:33 — And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
- John 5:5 — And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
- John 9:20 — His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
- Luke 8:43 — And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
- Luke 13:11 — And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
- Mark 5:23 — And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.