Mark 9:21

Jesus asks the father how long this has afflicted the boy, and he answers, 'From childhood.' The chronic suffering deepens the picture of need.

Cross-references · 13

• Acts 9:33There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
• John 9:20–21His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.
• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
• Luke 8:43including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
• John 5:5–6One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
• Acts 4:22For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
• Mark 5:25And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
• Luke 13:16Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
• John 9:1Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,
• Acts 14:8In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
• Acts 3:2And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
• Ps 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

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