Mark 9:23-25 NIV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Mark 9:23-27

Mark 9:23-27. Jesus said, If thou canst believe, &c. As if he had said, The question is not respecting my power, but thy faith. I can do all things: canst thou believe? If thou canst believe Canst rely with confidence on my power, love, and faithfulness, and be persuaded that I can and will grant thy request, the deliverance which thou desirest will surely be effected; for all things are possible To God, and all things of this kind, such as the deliverance of a person’s soul or body... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Mark 9:14-29

76. Healing of an uncontrollable boy (Matthew 17:14-21; Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43)While the faith of the three apostles on the mountain was being strengthened, the faith of the other nine on the plain below was failing. They were unable to cure a boy who suffered from sudden fits that made him uncontrollable (Mark 9:14-18). After the heavenly experiences on the mountain, Jesus felt the frustration of work in a world that was full of human failure (Mark 9:19). Nevertheless, he did not despise... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 9:23

If thou canst . Note how the Lord gives back the fathers question, with the same condition implied. believe . Omitted by T Tr. [A] WH R; not by the Syriac all things. Figure of speech Synecdoche ( App-6 ). All things included in the promise. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 9:24

the child . Greek. paidion. App-108 . cried out. Inarticulate. and said = began to say. Articulate. Lord . App-98 . B. a. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 9:25

foul = unclean. charge = command. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 9:23

And Jesus said unto him, If thou canst! All things are possible to him that believeth.These words must be understood as Jesus' rebuke of the father's lack of faith, and so the father accepted them. It is as if Jesus had said, "Look, any man who has faith will not set any limit on what the Lord is able to do." As Cranfield observed: "The father, instead of doubting the power of Jesus to help him, ought to have had a faith like that of the leper in Mark 1:40."[15] read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 9:24

Straightway the father of the child cried out, and said, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.Who is he who cannot identify with this distraught parent in his experience of faith with an admixture of doubt? Unbelief is never very far away from faith; and their name is legion who, like Peter of old, walk over tempestuous waves one moment and sink into faithless despair the next. This doubting believer properly appealed to the Lord as the only source of strengthening his faith. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 9:25

And when Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.The multitude mentioned here is not exactly identified; and Barclay and others have suggested that "Jesus must have taken the father and son apart";[16] and the crowd, already mentioned in Mark 9:14, would in such a case have been trying to catch up with the action. Jesus did not wait for them but cast... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Mark 9:20-24

Mark 9:20-24. The spirit tare him— Cast him into convulsions. Doubtless Jesus could easily have prevented this attack; but he wisely permitted it, that the minds of the spectators might be impressed with a more lively notion of the young man's distress. It was for the same reason also that he asked his father how long he had been in that deplorable condition? who informed him, that he had been so even from his childhood. The afflicted father, greatly discouraged by the inability of our Lord's... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Mark 9:23

23. Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe—The man had said, "If Thou canst do anything." Jesus replies. all things are possible to him that believeth—"My doing all depends on thy believing." To impress this still more, He redoubles upon the believing: "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." Thus the Lord helps the birth of faith in that struggling soul; and now, though with pain and sore travail, it comes to the birth, as TRENCH, borrowing from OLSHAUSEN,... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Mark 9:23-27

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Mark 9:14-29

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 9:23

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 9:24

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 9:25

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 9:23

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 9:24

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 9:25

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Mark 9:20-24

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Mark 9:23

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