24. At once the father of the boy gave [an eager, piercing, inarticulate] cry with tears, and he said, Lord, I believe! [Constantly] help my weakness of faith!
25. But when Jesus noticed that a crowd [of people] came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, You dumb and deaf spirit, I charge you to come out of him and never go into him again.
26. And after giving a [hoarse, clamoring, fear-stricken] shriek of anguish and convulsing him terribly, it came out; and the boy lay [pale and motionless] like a corpse, so that many of them said, He is dead.
27. But Jesus took [a strong grip of] his hand and began lifting him up, and he stood.
28. And when He had gone indoors, His disciples asked Him privately, Why could not we drive it out?
29. And He replied to them, This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting.
30. They went on from there and passed along through Galilee. And He did not wish to have anyone know it,