Mark 9:28 (LSB)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

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?”

Mark 9:29 And He said to them, “This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer.”

Mark 9:30 From there they went out and were going through Galilee, and He was not wanting anyone to know about it.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "came", "house", "disciples", "began", "questioning", "privately", and "cast". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "came" and "house", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 27's "But Jesus took him by the hand..." into verse 29's "And He said to them This kind...", so "came" and "house" 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 "came" and "house" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.