22. It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
23. Then Jesus said to him, “‘If you are able?’ All things are possible for the one who believes.”
24. Immediately the father of the boy cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
25. Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
26. It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!”
27. But Jesus gently took his hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.
28. Then, after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”
29. He told them, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”