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 9:33And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
• John 9:20–21His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
• Job 14:1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
• Job 5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
• Luke 8:43And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
• John 5:5–6And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
• Acts 4:22For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
• Mark 5:25And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
• Luke 13:16And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
• John 9:1And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
• Acts 14:8And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
• Acts 3:2And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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