25. Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering, rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!”
26. Shouting and throwing the boy into convulsions, it came out. He became like a corpse, which caused many to say, “He is dead!”
27. But Jesus took him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.
28. When he entered the house, his disciples asked him in private, “Why could we not drive it out?”
29. He said to them, “This kind can only come out through prayer.”
30. They left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it.
31. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death he will rise.”
32. But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him.
33. They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, “What were you arguing about on the way?”
34. But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest.