Mark 9:28
And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
KJV
καὶ εἰσελθόντος αὐτοῦ εἰς οἶκον οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ κατ’ ἰδίαν ἐπηρώτων αὐτόν· ὅτι ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἠδυνήθημεν ἐκβαλεῖν αὐτό;
Greek NT
Et dixit illis : Hoc genus in nullo potest exire, nisi in oratione et jejunio.
Vulgate
And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, How is it that we could not cast it out?
ASV
And he said to them: This kind can go out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἰσέρχομαι
eiserchomai
verb · 195×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
μαθητής
mathetes
noun · 261×
οἶκος
oikos
noun · 115×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
ἐκβάλλω
ekballo
verb · 80×
ἐπερωτάω
eperotao
verb · 56×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ἴδιος
idios
adjective · 114×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: εἰσελθόντος αὐτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: εἰσελθόντος αὐτοῦ | RP: εἰσελθόντα αὐτὸν
- εἰσελθόντος αὐτοῦ — SBLGNT
- εἰσελθόντος αὐτοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- εἰσελθόντα αὐτὸν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: κατ᾽ ἰδίαν ἐπηρώτων αὐτόν | WH/Treg/NIV: κατ᾽ ἰδίαν ἐπηρώτων αὐτόν | RP: ἐπηρώτων αὐτὸν κατ᾽ ἰδίαν
- κατ᾽ ἰδίαν ἐπηρώτων αὐτόν — SBLGNT
- κατ᾽ ἰδίαν ἐπηρώτων αὐτόν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐπηρώτων αὐτὸν κατ᾽ ἰδίαν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
2 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
- Mark 7:17 — And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
- Mark 9:18 — And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
- Mark 10:10 — And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
- Matt 17:19 — Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
- Matt 17:19 — Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?