Mark 9:21
Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
In Context
Cross References
Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Mark 5:25And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
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 9:1Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,
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 9:33There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
Matthew Henry on Mark 9:15-30
The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit. 14 And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them. 15 And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him. 16 And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them? 17 And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; 18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his… Read the whole commentary →