Mark 9:26 (LSB)

Passage

And after crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, “He is dead!”

Nearby Context

Mark 9:24 Immediately the boy’s father cried out and was saying, “I do believe; help my unbelief.”

Mark 9:25 Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again.”

Mark 9:26 And after crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, “He is dead!”

Mark 9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he stood up.

Mark 9:28 And when He came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "after", "crying", "throwing", "terrible", "convulsions", "came", "became", and "much". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "after" and "crying", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 25's "Now when Jesus saw that a crowd..." into verse 27's "But Jesus took him by the hand...", so "after" and "crying" 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 "after" and "crying" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.