38. Suddenly a man from the crowd shouted out loudly, saying, “Teacher, I’m begging You to look at my son, for he’s my only child!
39. You see, a spirit takes hold of him, and he immediately screams. It throws him into convulsions with frothing. It hardly ever leaves him—it’s crushing him!
40. I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t.”
41. Then answering, Yeshua said, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long shall I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”
42. And while the boy was still approaching Yeshua, the demon knocked him down to the ground and threw him into convulsions. But Yeshua rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and restored him to his father.
43. And all were amazed at the mighty power of God. But as everyone was marveling at all He was doing, He said to His disciples,
44. “Put these words into your ears: the Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”
45. But they did not understand this statement; it was yet concealed from them so they could not grasp it. And they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.
46. Now a dispute began between the disciples as to who might be the greatest among them.
47. But Yeshua, knowing the reasoning of their heart, took a child and set him by His side.
48. He said to them, “Whoever welcomes this child in My name, welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me, welcomes the One who sent Me. The one who is the least among all of you is the one who is great.”
49. John replied, “Master, we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him because he doesn’t follow along with us.”
50. Yeshua said to him, “Do not stop him, for he who is not against you is for you.”
51. When the days were approaching for Him to be taken up, Yeshua was determined to go up to Jerusalem.
52. He sent messengers before Him, and they went and entered a Samaritan village to make His arrangements.
53. But they did not receive Him, because He was focused on going up to Jerusalem.