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Luke 9:40

World English Bible

I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t.”

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Luke 9:40 in other translations

And I besought thy disciples to cast it out; and they could not.

Luke 9:40 · American Standard Version

Luke 9:40 in context

  1. 38Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.
  2. 39Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.
  3. 40I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t.”
  4. 41Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
  5. 42While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.