Mark 9:21 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 9:21

Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he asked his father, How long time is it since this hath come unto him? And he said, From a child.

KJV

And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

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Commentary

3 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (1107)

He also permits the child to be vexed, that in this way we might know the devil's wickedness, who would have killed him, had he not been assisted by the Lord. It goes on: And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child; and offtimes it has cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

Bede

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (735)

Let Juliang blush, who dares to say that all men are born in the flesh, without the infection of sin, as though they were innocent in all respects, just as Adam was when he was created. For what was there in the boy, that he should be troubled from infancy with a cruel devil, if he were not held at all by the chain of original sin? since it is evident that he could not yet have had any sin of his own.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

The contrast between these verses and those which precede them in the chapter is very striking. We pass from the mount of transfiguration to a melancholy history of the work of the devil. We come down from the vision of glory — to a conflict with Satanic possession. We change the blessed company of Moses and Elijah — for crude interaction with unbelieving Scribes.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἐπηρώτησεν	epērōtēsen	He asked	G1905 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
πατέρα	patera	father	G3962 →
αὐτοῦ·	autou	of him;	G846 →
πόσος	posos	How long	G4214 →
χρόνος	chronos	a time	G5550 →
ἐστὶν	estin	is it	G1510 →
ὡς	hōs	that	G5613 →
τοῦτο	touto	this	G3778 →
γέγονεν	gegonen	has been	G1096 →
αὐτῷ;	autō	with him?	G846 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	he said;	G2036 →
ἐκ	ek	From	G1537 →
παιδιόθεν.	paidiothen	childhood.	G3812 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 5:7
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
leads to
- Job 14:1
  “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Genesis 3:17–19
  And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because…
- Ecclesiastes 5:15–17
  As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
Through
Acts 4:22
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
leads to
- John 5:5
  One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 9:33
  There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
- Acts 3:2
  And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
- Matthew 9:20
  Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
- Luke 13:11
  and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.