"And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?" — Mark 9:28

Mark 9:28 · KJV

“And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?”

— Mark 9:28

But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

Mark 9 — Context

And {the spirit} cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know {it}.

Cross References

Matthew 17:19-20

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?

Matthew 13:10

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

Matthew 15:15

Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.

Mark 4:10

And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

Matthew 13:36

Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

Mark 4:34

But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

Mark 7:17

And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, {it} cannot defile him;