24. Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
25. And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
26. And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy 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 he arose.
28. And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”
29. And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”
30. They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know,
31. for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”
32. But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
33. And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”
34. But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.
35. And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
36. And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,