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867  l   Mark 9:37
­There he was trans­fig­ured be­fore them.
3   His ­clothes be­came daz­zling ­white, whit­
er than any­one in the ­world ­could ­bleach
them. 4 And t ­ here ap­peared be­fore them
Eli­jah and Mo­ses, who were talk­ing with
Jesus.
5 Pe­ter said to ­Jesus, “Rab­bi, it is good
for us to be here. Let us put up ­three shel­
ters — ​one for you, one for Mo­ses and one
for Eli­jah.” 6 (He did not know what to say,
they were so fright­ened.)
7 Then a ­cloud ap­peared and cov­ered
them, and a ­voice came from the c ­ loud:
“This is my Son, whom I love. Lis­ten to
him!”
8   Sud­den­ly, when they ­looked ­around,
they no lon­ger saw any­one with them ex­
cept ­Jesus.
9 As they were com­ing down the moun­
tain, ­Jesus gave them or­ders not to tell
any­one what they had seen un­til the Son of
Man had ris­en from the dead. 10 They kept
the mat­ter to them­selves, dis­cuss­ing what
“ris­ing from the dead” meant.
11 And they a
­ sked him, “Why do the
teach­ers of the law say that Eli­jah must
come first?”
12 ­Jesus re­plied, “To be sure, Eli­jah does
come ­first, and re­stores all ­things. Why
then is it writ­ten that the Son of Man must
suf­fer much and be re­ject­ed? 13 But I tell
you, Eli­jah has come, and they have done
to him ev­ery­thing they ­wished, just as it is
writ­ten ­about him.”
J ­ esus Heals a Boy Possessed
by an Impure Spirit
14 When they came to the oth­er dis­ci­ples,
they saw a ­large ­crowd ­around them and
the teach­ers of the law ar­gu­ing with them.
15 As soon as all the peo­ple saw ­Jesus, they
were over­whelmed with won­der and ran to
greet him.
16 “What are you ar­
gu­
ing with them
about?” he asked.
17 A man in the ­crowd an­swered, “Teach­
er, I ­brought you my son, who is pos­sessed
by a spir­it that has ­robbed him of ­speech.
18 When­ev­er it seiz­es him, it ­throws him to
the ­ground. He f ­ oams at the m
­ outh, gnash­
es his ­teeth and be­comes rig­id. I a
­ sked
your dis­ci­ples to d
­ rive out the spir­it, but
they c ­ ould not.”
19 “You un­be­liev­ing gen­er­a­tion,” ­Jesus
re­plied, “how long s ­ hall I stay with you?
How long s ­ hall I put up with you? B
­ ring
the boy to me.”
20 So they ­brought him. When the spir­
it saw ­Jesus, it im­me­di­ate­ly ­threw the boy
into a con­vul­sion. He fell to the g
­ round
and ­rolled ­around, foam­ing at the mouth.
21 ­Jesus ­asked the ­boy’s fa­ther, “How long
has he been like this?”
“From child­hood,” he an­swered. 22 “It
has of­ten ­thrown him into fire or wa­ter to
kill him. But if you can do any­thing, take
pity on us and help us.”
23 “ ‘If you can’?” said ­Jesus. “Ev­ery­thing
is pos­si­ble for one who be­lieves.”
24  Im­m e­d i­a te­ly the ­b oy’s fa­t her ex­
claimed, “I do be­lieve; help me over­come
my un­be­lief  !”
25 When ­Jesus saw that a ­crowd was run­
ning to the ­scene, he re­buked the im­pure
spir­it. “You deaf and mute spir­it,” he said,
“I com­mand you, come out of him and
nev­er en­ter him again.”
26 The spir­it ­shrieked, con­vulsed him vi­
o­lent­ly and came out. The boy ­looked so
much like a c ­ orpse that many said, “He’s
dead.” 27 But ­Jesus took him by the hand
and lift­ed him to his feet, and he ­stood up.
28 Af­ter ­Jesus had gone in­doors, his dis­
ci­ples ­asked him pri­vate­ly, “Why ­couldn’t
we ­drive it out?”
29   He re­plied, “This kind can come out
only by prayer.  a  ”
J ­ esus Predicts His Death a Second
Time
30 
T hey left that p
­ lace and ­
p assed
­through Gal­i­lee. ­Jesus did not want any­
one to know ­where they were, 31  be­cause he
was teach­ing his dis­ci­ples. He said to them,
“The Son of Man is go­ing to be de­liv­ered
in­to the h
­ ands of men. They will kill him,
and af­ter t ­ hree days he will rise.” 32 But they
did not un­der­stand what he m
­ eant and
were ­afraid to ask him ­about it.
33 They came to Ca­per­na­um. When he
was in the ­house, he ­asked them, “What
were you ar­gu­ing ­about on the road?”
34 But they kept qui­et be­cause on the way
they had ar­gued ­about who was the great­
est.
35   Sit­ting down, ­Jesus ­called the ­Twelve
and said, “Any­one who ­wants to be ­first
must be the very last, and the ser­vant of
all.”
36 He took a lit­tle ­child whom he ­placed
among them. Tak­ing the ­child in his arms,
he said to them, 37 “Who­ev­er wel­comes
one of t ­ hese lit­tle chil­dren in my name
wel­comes me; and who­ev­er wel­comes me
does not wel­come me but the one who
sent me.”
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