Jesus Cures Convulsive Boy

153	CONVULSIVE BOY CURED
Matt 17		Mark 9		Luke 9
14	And	14	And	37	On the next day,
	when they came		when they came		when they had come down
	to the		to the disciples		from the mountain,
	crowd		they saw a great crowd		a great crowd
			about them
			and scribes arguing
			with them.
		15	And immediately
			all the crowd,
			when they saw him,
			were greatly amazed,
	a man came up to him		and ran up to him
			and greeted him.		met him.
		16	And he asked them,
			"What are you discussing
			with them?"
	and kneeling before him	17	And	38	And behold
			one of the crowd		a man from the crowd
	said,		answered him,		cried,
15	"Lord,		"Teacher,		"Teacher,
			I brought		I beg you
	have mercy on		[see Mark 9:22 below]		to look upon
	my son		my son to you		my son
	for		for		for
	he is		he has		he is my only child;
	an epileptic		a dumb spirit; *
		18	and whenever	39	and, behold, a spirit *
			it seizes him,		seizes him,
	and he suffers terribly				and he suddenly cries out,
			it dashes him down;		it convulses him
			and he foams		till he foams
			and grinds his teeth		and shatters him
			and becomes rigid;		and will hardly leave him.
	for often he falls		[see Mark 9:22 below]
	into the fire
	and often into the water.
16	And I brought him		and I asked	40	And I begged
	to your disciples		your disciples		your disciples
			to cast it out		to cast it out
	and they could not		and they were not able.		but they could not.
	heal him.
17	And Jesus answered	19	And he answered them,	41	Jesus answered
	"O faithless		"O faithless		"O faithless
	and perverse				and perverse
	generation,		generation,		generation,
	how long am I to be		how long am I to be		how long am I to be
	with you?		with you?		with you?
	How long am I to bear		How long am I to bear		and bear
	with you?		with you?		with you?
	Bring him here to me."		Bring him to me."		Bring your son here."
		20	And they brought the boy	42	While he was coming
			to him;
			and when the spirit saw him,		the demon tore him
			immediately
			it convulsed the boy,		and convulsed him.
			and he fell on the ground
			and rolled about,
			foaming at the mouth.
		21	And Jesus asked his father,
			"How long
			has he had this?"
			And he said,
			"From childhood.
	[see Matt 17:15 above]	22	And it has often cast him
			into the fire
			and into the water
			to destroy him;
			but if you can do anything,
	[see Matt 17:15 above]		have pity on us
			and help us."
		23	And Jesus said to him,
			"If you can!
			All things are possible
			to him who believes."
		24	Immediately
			the father of the child
			cried out and said,
			"I believe;
			help my unbelief!"
18	And Jesus	25	And when Jesus saw		But Jesus
			that a crowd came
			running together,
	rebuked him		he rebuked the unclean spirit,		rebuked the unclean spirit,
			saying to it,
			"You dumb and deaf spirit,
			I command you,
			come out of him
			and never enter him again."
	and the demon	26	And after crying out
			and convulsing him terribly,
	came out of him,		it came out,
	and the boy		and the boy		and healed the boy
	was cured instantly.		was like a corpse
			so that most of them said,
			"He is dead."
		27	But Jesus took him
			by the hand
			and lifted him up,		and gave him back
			and he arose.		to his father.
19	Then	28	And when he had entered
			the house,
	the disciples		his disciples
	came to Jesus privately,		asked him privately,
	"Why could we not		"Why could we not
	cast it out?"		cast it out?"
20	He said to them,	28	And he said to them,
	"Because of		"This kind cannot
	your little faith."		be driven out
			by anything but prayer."
				43	And all were astonished
					at the majesty of God

Canonical gospel selection in the Revised Standard Version
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Blue	Three texts use same vocabulary.
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Black	Words unique to a particular text.
	No parallel elements in this gospel.
*	Same wording, different order
153	Sequence in synoptic outlines