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The Boy with an Evil Spirit

Mark 9:17

In 9 translations

BSB
Someone in the crowd replied, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a spirit that makes him mute.
KJV
And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;
WEB
One of the multitude answered, “Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;
ASV
And one of the multitude answered him, Teacher, I brought unto thee my son, who hath a dumb spirit;
LSV
And one out of the multitude answering said, “Teacher, I brought my son to You, having a mute spirit;
YLT
and one out of the multitude answering said, 'Teacher, I brought my son unto thee, having a dumb spirit;
DBY
And one out of the crowd answered him, Teacher, I brought to thee my son, who has a dumb spirit;
DRC9:16
And one of the multitude, answering, said: Master, I have brought my son to thee, having a dumb spirit.
GNV
And one of the companie answered, and said, Master, I haue brought my sonne vnto thee, which hath a dumme spirit:

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἀπεκρίθη (“answered”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἀποκριθεὶς (“answering”).
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  • In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles include αὐτῷ (“Him”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
  • In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include εἶπεν (“said”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ εἷς … ὄχλου. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ εἷς … ὄχλου; Robinson–Pierpont read ἀποκριθεὶς εἷς … ὄχλου εἶπεν.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ εἷς ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου· Διδάσκαλε, ἤνεγκα τὸν υἱόν μου πρὸς σέ, ἔχοντα πνεῦμα ἄλαλον·
RP2018
Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς εἷς ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου εἶπεν, Διδάσκαλε, ἤνεγκα τὸν υἱόν μου πρός σε, ἔχοντα πνεῦμα ἄλαλον.
TR-Boyd
Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς εἷς ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου εἶπε, Διδάσκαλε, ἤνεγκα τὸν υἱόν μου πρός σε, ἔχοντα πνεῦμα ἄλαλον.
SCR1894
και αποκριθεις εις εκ του οχλου ειπεν διδασκαλε ηνεγκα τον υιον μου προς σε εχοντα πνευμα αλαλον

Who and where

◆ Healing a Boy with a Demon

People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Mark 9:25When Jesus saw that a crowd had come running, He rebuked the unclean spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” He said, “I command you to come out and never enter him again.”
  • Luke 11:14One day Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. And when the demon was gone, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed,
  • Luke 9:38Suddenly a man in the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only child.
  • Mark 10:13Now people were bringing the little children to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them, and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
  • Matthew 17:15“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.
  • John 4:47When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.
  • Matthew 12:22Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus, and He healed the man so that he could speak and see.
  • Mark 5:23and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”
  • Mark 7:26Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 9:16 in some Bibles
  • 9:17 in most Bibles

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