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 certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
• John 9:20–21His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
• Job 5:7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
• Luke 8:43A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,
• John 5:5–6A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
• Acts 4:22For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
• Mark 5:25A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,
• Luke 13:16Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”
• John 9:1As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
• Acts 14:8At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
• Acts 3:2A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

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