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Mark 9:21
Mark 9:21 is verse 21 of Mark chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
King James Version
And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
World English Bible
He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has been happening to him?” He said, “From childhood.
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Mark 9:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
19 “O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”
20 So they brought him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
21 Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
22 “It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
23 “If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Mark 5:25And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Luke 8:43including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
Luke 13:16Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
John 5:5One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
John 5:6When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
John 9:1Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,
John 9:20His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.
John 9:21But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
Acts 3:2And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
Acts 4:22For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
Acts 9:33There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
Acts 14:8In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.