Mark Chapter 9

• Mark 9:1
  Mark.
• Mark 9:2
  He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with power....
• Mark 9:3
  After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into a...
• Mark 9:4
  His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
• Mark 9:5
  Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
• Mark 9:6
  Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
• Mark 9:7
  For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid.
• Mark 9:8
  A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
• Mark 9:9
  Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.
• Mark 9:10
  As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had r...
• Mark 9:11
  They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.
• Mark 9:12
  They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
• Mark 9:13
  He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be...
• Mark 9:14
  But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”
• Mark 9:15
  Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
• Mark 9:16
  Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.
• Mark 9:17
  He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?”
• Mark 9:18
  One of the multitude answered, “Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;
• Mark 9:19
  and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out,...
• Mark 9:20
  He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”
• Mark 9:21
  They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.
• Mark 9:22
  He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has been happening to him?” He said, “From childhood.
• Mark 9:23
  Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
• Mark 9:24
  Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
• Mark 9:25
  Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
• Mark 9:26
  When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come ou...
• Mark 9:27
  After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”
• Mark 9:28
  But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him up; and he arose.
• Mark 9:29
  When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”
• Mark 9:30
  He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but by prayer and fasting.”
• Mark 9:31
  They went out from there and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it,
• Mark 9:32
  for he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is ...
• Mark 9:33
  But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
• Mark 9:34
  He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”
• Mark 9:35
  But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.
• Mark 9:36
  He sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
• Mark 9:37
  He took a little child and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
• Mark 9:38
  “Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”
• Mark 9:39
  John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.”
• Mark 9:40
  But Jesus said, “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name and be able quickly to speak evil of me.
• Mark 9:41
  For whoever is not against us is on our side.
• Mark 9:42
  For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.
• Mark 9:43
  “Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone ...
• Mark 9:44
  If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, ...
• Mark 9:45
  ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
• Mark 9:46
  If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna...
• Mark 9:47
  ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
• Mark 9:48
  If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast...
• Mark 9:49
  ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
• Mark 9:50
  For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
• Mark 9:51
  Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”