Mark 9:24 (DBY)

Passage

And immediately the father of the young child crying out said [with tears], I believe, help mine unbelief.

Nearby Context

Mark 9:22 and often it has cast him both into fire and into waters that it might destroy him: but if thou couldst [do] anything, be moved with pity on us, and help us.

Mark 9:23 And Jesus said to him, The 'if thou couldst' is [if thou couldst] believe: all things are possible to him that believes.

Mark 9:24 And immediately the father of the young child crying out said [with tears], I believe, help mine unbelief.

Mark 9:25 But Jesus, seeing that [the] crowd was running up together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, *I* command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

Mark 9:26 And having cried out and torn [him] much, he came out; and he became as if dead, so that the most said, He is dead.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "immediately", "father", "young", "child", "crying", "said", "tears", and "believe". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "immediately" and "father", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 23's "And Jesus said to him The if..." into verse 25's "But Jesus seeing that the crowd was...", so "immediately" and "father" belong inside that flow. In Mark context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "immediately" and "father" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.