Mark 9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

9As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

10So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead could mean.

11Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

12He said to them, “Elijah is indeed coming first to restore all things. How then is it written about the Son of Man, that he is to go through many sufferings and be treated with contempt?

13But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written about him.”

14When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them and some scribes arguing with them.

15When the whole crowd saw him, they were immediately overcome with awe, and they ran forward to greet him.

16He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?”

17Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought you my son; he has a spirit that makes him unable to speak,

18and whenever it seizes him, it dashes him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid, and I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so.”

19He answered them, “You faithless generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him to me.”

20And they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

21Jesus asked the father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

22It has often cast him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you are able to do anything, help us! Have compassion on us!”

23Jesus said to him, “If you are able! All things can be done for the one who believes.”

24Immediately the father of the child cried out, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

25When Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You spirit that keeps this boy from speaking and hearing, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”

26After 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.”

27But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he was able to stand.

28Jesus Again Foretells His Death and Resurrection

30They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it,

31 and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.”

39But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.

40 to sin, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea.

43 cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.

45 cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell.,

47 tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell,

48

50 Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”