17 Then one of the crowd answered and said, "Teacher, I brought my son to You, because he has a mute spirit.

18 And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and gnashes his teeth, and he becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they might cast it out, but they were not able."

19 He answered him and said, "O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me."

20 Then they brought the boy to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and having fallen on the ground he was rolling about, foaming at the mouth.

21 So He asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?"And he said, "From childhood.

22 And often it threw him both into the fire and into the waters so that it may destroy him. But if You are able [to do] anything, help us and have compassion on us."

23 Jesus said to him, "If you are able to believe: all things are possible to him that believes."

24 And immediately crying out, the father of the child said with tears, "I believe, Lord; help my unbelief!"

25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!"

26 Then having cried out and having convulsed him greatly, it came out. And he became as one dead, so that many were saying, "He is dead."

27 But Jesus, having grasped him by the hand, lifted him up, and he arose.