26The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, "He's dead."


In Context

23 " 'If you can'?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes."

24 Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!"

25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the evil spirit. "You deaf and mute spirit," he said, "I command you, come out of him and never enter him again."

26 The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, "He's dead."

27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he stood up.

28 After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"

Mark 9:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:26And [the spirit] cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:26And crying out, and greatly tearing him, he went out of him, and he became as dead, so that many said: He is dead.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:26And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: and the boy became as one dead; insomuch that the more part said, He is dead.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:26And having cried out and torn him much, he came out; and he became as if dead, so that the most said, He is dead.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:26And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: and the child became as one dead; insomuch that the more part said, He is dead.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:26And the spirit cried, and rent him severely, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; so that many said, He is dead.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:26Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, |He is dead.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:26and having cried, and rent him much, it came forth, and he became as dead, so that many said that he was dead,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:26And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; so that many said, He is dead.