25 And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he ^hrebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I ⁱcommand you, come out of him and never enter him again.” 26 And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.” 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. 28 And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him ^jprivately, “Why could we not cast it out?” 29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but ^kprayer.”¹