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Mark 9:28 KJV
Mark · chapter 9 · verse 28
And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?Mark 9:28 · King James Version
Mark 9:28 in context
26And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
27But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.
28And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
29And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
30And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- disciplesmathētēsa learner, pupil, discipleG3101 →
- privatelykatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- privatelyidiospertaining to one s self, one s own, belonging to one s selfG2398 →
- houseoikosa house, an inhabited house, home, any building whatever, of a palace, the house of God…G3624 →
- askedeperōtaōto accost one with an enquiry, put a question to, enquiry of, ask, interrogate, to…G1905 →
- comeeiserchomaito go out or come in to enter, of men or animals, as into a house or a city, of Satan…G1525 →
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We have here the story of Christ casting the devil out of a child, somewhat more fully related than it was in Mat 17:14, etc. Observe here, I. Christ's return to his disciples, and the perplexity he found them in.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-29