He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but by prayer and fasting.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 9:29 in context
Mark 9:26–32
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After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”
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But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him up; and he arose.
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When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”
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He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but by prayer and fasting.”
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They went out from there and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it,
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for he was teaching his disciples, and said to them,