Mark 9:29-31
Living Bible
29 Jesus replied, “Cases like this require prayer.”[a]
30-31 Leaving that region they traveled through Galilee where he tried to avoid all publicity in order to spend more time with his disciples, teaching them. He would say to them, “I, the Messiah, am going to be betrayed and killed and three days later I will return to life again.”
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- Mark 9:29 Cases like this require prayer. “And fasting” is added in some manuscripts, but not the most ancient.
Mark 9:29-31
New King James Version
29 So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but (A)prayer [a]and fasting.”
Jesus Again Predicts His Death and Resurrection
30 Then they departed from there and passed through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know it. 31 (B)For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will (C)kill Him. And after He is killed, He will (D)rise the third day.”
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- Mark 9:29 NU omits and fasting
Mark 9:29-31
English Standard Version
29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”[a]
Jesus Again Foretells Death, Resurrection
30 (A)They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, (B)after three days he will rise.”
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- Mark 9:29 Some manuscripts add and fasting
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