Mark 9:21
Then Jesus asked the boy's father, “How long has this been happening to him?” The father said, “From childhood.
Text-Critical English NT
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
Mark 5:25Now there was a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years.
Luke 13:16Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, be released from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”
John 9:1As Jesus walked along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
Acts 3:2And a man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those who were entering the temple courts.
Acts 9:33There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been confined to a mat 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 →