Mark 9:23

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:1-32

SECTION 3. Jesus’ Ministry Throughout Galilee and In The Surrounding Regions (4:35-9:32). After the initial opening up of the story of Jesus with its continual emphasis on His unique authority, Who He was and what He had come to do (Mark 4:1-3), and the series of parables which have indicated how the Kingly Rule of God was to expand (Mark 4:1-34), Mark now indicates how this expansion continued to occur through the ministry of Jesus in Galilee and the surrounding regions. At the same time he... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:1-33

The Eyes of The Disciples Are Opened (8:22-9:33a). Following on Jesus’ concern at the lack of understanding of the disciples we now learn how their eyes are gradually opened to see at least something of the truth. The subsection commences with the healing of a blind man in two stages, a picture of what is happening to the disciples, and moves on to the disciples’ recognition that Jesus is the Messiah. The consequence of this is that Jesus then begins to emphasise that His way is to be a way of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:14-29

The Casting Out of the Deaf And Dumb Spirit (9:14-29). This incident provides a fitting climax to this section of the Gospel. It is the final example of Jesus acting to cast out evil spirits. That was a work in which He was involved from the beginning (Mark 1:23-27) and had become a permanent aspect of His ministry (Mark 1:32; Mark 1:34; Mark 3:11; Mark 3:22-30; Mark 5:1-20) and of the ministry of His disciples (Mark 6:7). Now at the end of His Galilean ministry He faces a final challenge. In... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:23

‘And Jesus said to him, “If you can? All things are possible to him who believes.” ’. The probable text is ‘to ’ei dune’ making the ‘if you can’ a noun equivalent. Jesus was saying, “you have said ‘if you can’. But to him who believes (what I can do) all things are possible.’ The strength of the argument is not that if the man has sufficient faith the boy can be healed, but that if the man has sufficient faith in Jesus Himself then he can be. And it was necessary for him to have faith in Jesus.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 9:14-29

Mark 9:14-Joel : . The Healing of the Demoniac Boy.— This story is told in greater detail by Mk. than by Mt. or Lk., who omit the conversation between Jesus and the boy’ s father ( Mark 9:20-Jeremiah :). Perhaps they wished to avoid representing Jesus as asking a question for information ( Mark 9:21). In any case, they lose genuine and valuable material (especially Mark 9:23 f.). Possibly AV is right in giving us the singular, “ he came,” in Mark 9:14, instead of RV, “ they came.” If so, the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 9:17-29

This famous history is also recorded by two other evangelists, Matthew and Luke; we have opened it in our notes on Matthew 17:14-21; (See Poole on "Matthew 17:14", and following verses to Matthew 17:21) and considered what Mark and Luke have to complete it. For our instruction we may learn several things from the consideration of it: 1. The great goodness of God in preserving us from the power of evil spirits, as also the daily working of his providence for our preservation. What but this kept... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 9:14-29

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Mark 9:14-29(PARALLELS: Matthew 17:14-21; Luke 9:37-43.)The afflicted child.—Moses, when he descended from the mount, found that the people in his absence had lapsed into idolatry; and our Lord, in descending from the Mount of Transfiguration, found that His followers had been surprised into spiritual impotence and failure. The swift transition from the glories of the Mount to the trials and toils that awaited Him below may be regarded as typical of the life of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 9:23

Mark 9:23 Christ's "If" answered and more than answered the man's "if." The man had said, "if thou canst do anything"; Christ reversed it and showed where the real contingency lay. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." And why are all things possible to him that believeth? Because he that believeth takes hold of Christ and uses His omnipotence. I. Observe first the expression. "If thou canst believe," not, "if thou dost believe." Every man who has not made... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 9:23-24

Mark 9:23-24 Present Phases of Unbelief. I. Unbelief may have its rise and find occasion in three directions the external world, man, and the nature of Christianity itself. One meets constantly the words Agnosticism and Positivism, and these words indicate the channel in which unbelief at present flows. II. The very principle of the Agnostic involves a contradiction. He declares that man cannot know that there is a God that God, if He exists, cannot make Himself known. Is not this professing to... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Mark 9:23

Where the "If" Lies October 14, 1883 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." Mark 9:23 . I believe that our own Authorized Version conveys to the mind of the reader the sense intended by the Evangelist; it is, however, exceedingly probable that in exact words the Revised Version is nearer to the original. It runs thus "And Jesus said unto him, If thou canst! All things are possible to him that believeth." Our... read more

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