Luke 9:40
Good News Translation
I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't."

New Revised Standard Version
I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.”

Contemporary English Version
I begged your disciples to force out the demon, but they couldn't do it."

New American Bible
I begged your disciples to cast it out but they could not.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I desired thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I desired thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not.

and they.

Luke 9:1 Then calling together the twelve apostles, he gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases.

Luke 10:17-19 And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying: Lord, the devils also are subject to us in thy name. . . .

2 Kings 4:31 But Giezi was gone before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child, and there was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet him, and told him, saying: The child is not risen.

Matthew 17:20,21 But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting. . . .

Acts 19:13-16 Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth. . . .

Context
The Boy with an Evil Spirit
39And lo, a spirit seizeth him, and he suddenly crieth out, and he throweth him down and teareth him, so that he foameth; and bruising him, he hardly departeth from him. 40And I desired thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not. 41And Jesus, answering:, said: O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring hither thy son.…
Cross References
Luke 9:39
And lo, a spirit seizeth him, and he suddenly crieth out, and he throweth him down and teareth him, so that he foameth; and bruising him, he hardly departeth from him.

Luke 9:41
And Jesus, answering:, said: O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring hither thy son.

Luke 9:39
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