Mark 9:21
Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has he been like this?” He replied, “ This started to happen when he was a child.
Translation for Translators
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“We humans are very frail. We live only a short time, and we experience a lot of trouble.
Mark 5:25There was a woman in the crowd who had vaginal bleeding [EUP] every day for twelve years.
Luke 13:16This woman is more important than an animal; she is a Jew, descended from Abraham! But Satan has kept her [MET] crippled for 18 years, as though he had tied her up and not let her escape! So ◄it is certainly right that she be freed {that I free her}, even if this is a Sabbath day!/was it not right that she be freed {that I free her}, even if this is a Jewish rest day?► [RHQ]”
John 9:1As Jesus walked along with us, he saw a man who had been blind from the time he was born.
Acts 3:2There was a man there who had been lame from the time he was born. He was sitting by the gate called Beautiful Gate, at the entrance to the Temple area. People put him there every day, so that he could ask those who were entering or leaving the temple courtyard to give him some money.
Acts 9:33There he met a man whose name was Aeneas. Aeneas had not been able to get up from his bed for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
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 →