Mark 9:21

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And he questioned his father, `How long time is it since this came to him?' and he said, `From childhood,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 9:21 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
  2. Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
  3. Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
  4. Mark 5:25And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
  5. Luke 8:43including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
  6. Luke 13:16Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
  7. John 5:5One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
  8. John 9:1Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,
  9. John 9:20His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.
  10. Acts 3:2And 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.
  11. Acts 4:22For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
  12. Acts 9:33There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
  13. Acts 14:8In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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