Mark 9
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1And he was saying to them: "Amen I say to you, that there are some of those standing here who will by no means taste death until they see the kingdom of God having come in power." 2And after six days Jesus takes along Peter and James and John, and brings them up to a high mountain privately by themselves alone. And he was transformed before them, 3and his garments became shining, luminously light like snow, such as no launderer on earth is able so to whiten. 4And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. 5And answering, Peter says to Jesus: "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here, and let us make three tents: for you one, and for Moses one, and for Elijah one." 6For he did not know what to answer, for they had become terrified. 7And a cloud came overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud saying: "This is my Son, the beloved; listen to him." 8And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone, but Jesus only with themselves. 9And as they were descending from the mountain, he commanded them that they should recount to no one the things they saw, except when the Son of Man should rise from the dead. 10And they kept the saying to themselves, debating what the 'to rise from the dead' is. 11And they questioned him, saying: "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" 12And answering, he said to them: "Elijah indeed, having come first, restores all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man, that he must endure much and be treated with contempt? 13But I say to you that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they willed, just as it is written of him." 14And coming to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them and scribes debating with them. 15And immediately all the crowd, seeing him, were astonished, and running forward they greeted him. 16And he questioned the scribes: "What are you debating with them?" 17And one out of the crowd answered him: "Teacher, I brought my son to you, who has a mute spirit. 18And wherever it seizes him, it shatters him; and he foams and grinds his teeth and stiffens. And I spoke to your disciples that they might cast it out, and they lacked the strength." 19And answering them, he says: "O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring him to me." 20And they brought him to him. And seeing him, the spirit immediately convulsed him, and falling upon the ground, he rolled around foaming. 21And he questioned his father: "How much time is it since this has happened to him?" And he said: "From childhood. 22And often it has cast him both into the fire and into waters to destroy him; but if you can do anything, help us, having compassion on us." 23And Jesus said to him: "The 'if you can believe'—all things are possible for the one who believes." 24And immediately crying out, the father of the child said with tears: "I believe, Lord; help my unbelief!" 25Now Jesus, seeing that a crowd was running together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it: "The mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him, and do not enter into him again." 26And crying out and severely convulsing him, it came out, and he became like a corpse, so that the many said that he died. 27But Jesus, taking hold of his hand, raised him, and he stood up. 28And when he had entered into a house, his disciples questioned him privately: "Why is it that we could not cast it out?" 29And he said to them: "This kind can come out by nothing except by prayer and fasting." 30And going out from there, they were passing through Galilee, and he did not want that anyone should know. 31For he was teaching his disciples and saying to them that: "The Son of Man is being handed over into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and having been killed, after three days he will rise." 32But they were ignorant of the saying, and were afraid to question him. 33And they came to Capernaum. And being in the house, he questioned them: "What were you debating on the way?" 34But they kept silent; for they had debated with one another on the way who was greatest. 35And sitting down, he called the twelve and says to them: "If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all." 36And taking a child, he stood him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them: 37"Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, does not receive me, but the one who sent me." 38John said to him, saying: "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name who does not follow us, and we were forbidding him, because he was not following us." 39But Jesus said: "Do not forbid him; for there is no one who will do a work of power in my name and will be able quickly to speak evil of me. 40For whoever is not against us is for us. 41For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, amen I say to you that he will by no means lose his reward. 42And whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it is better for him if a heavy millstone is hung around his neck and he has been cast into the sea. 43And if your hand causes you to stumble, amputate it; it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having your two hands to go away into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, 44where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 45And if your foot causes you to stumble, amputate it; it is better for you to enter into life lame, than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, 46where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 47And if your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out; it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God one-eyed, than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, 48where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 49For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt. 50Salt is good; but if the salt becomes saltless, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
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