Mark 9:29
And He said to them, “This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 4:33and he goes in and shuts the door on them both, and prays to YHWH.
Matthew 12:45then it goes, and takes with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having gone in they dwell there, and the last of that man becomes worse than the first; so will it also be to this evil generation.”
Matthew 17:21[[and this kind does not go forth except in prayer and fasting.”]]
Acts 9:40And Peter having put them all forth outside, having bowed the knees, prayed, and having turned to the body, said, “Tabitha, arise”; and she opened her eyes, and having seen Peter, she sat up,
1 Corinthians 9:27but I bruise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.
2 Corinthians 11:27in laboriousness and painfulness, many times in watchings, in hunger and thirst, many times in fastings, in cold and nakedness;
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 →