Luke 9:40
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New International Version (©2011)
I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they could not."

New Living Translation (©2007)
I begged your disciples to cast out the spirit, but they couldn't do it."

English Standard Version (©2001)
And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I begged Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't."

International Standard Version (©2012)
I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't."

NET Bible (©2006)
I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so."

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“And I begged of your disciples to cast it out and they could not.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I begged your disciples to force the spirit out of him, but they couldn't do it."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I besought your disciples to cast him out; and they could not.

American King James Version
And I sought your disciples to cast him out; and they could not.

American Standard Version
And I besought thy disciples to cast it out; and they could not.

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

Darby Bible Translation
And I besought thy disciples that they might cast him out, and they could not.

English Revised Version
And I besought thy disciples to cast it out; and they could not.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I besought thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not.

Weymouth New Testament
I entreated your disciples to expel the spirit, but they could not."

World English Bible
I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn't."

Young's Literal Translation
and I besought thy disciples that they might cast it out, and they were not able.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

9:37-42 How deplorable the case of this child! He was under the power of an evil spirit. Disease of that nature are more frightful than such as arise merely from natural causes. What mischief Satan does where he gets possession! But happy those that have access to Christ! He can do that for us which his disciples cannot. A word from Christ healed the child; and when our children recover from sickness, it is comfortable to receive them as healed by the hand of Christ.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 40. - And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not. This appears to have been a case of the deadliest kind of epileptic lunacy. Our Lord distinctly assumes here that the disease in this case was occasioned by an unclean spirit who had taken possession of the suffering child. The whole question of demoniacal possession, its extent, its cause, whether or no it still survives in some of the many mysterious phases of madness, is very difficult. It has been discussed elsewhere (see notes on Luke 4:33 and following verses).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I besought thy disciples,.... The nine disciples that were left behind, whilst Christ, and the other three, were gone up to the mountain:

to cast him out; the devil out of his child:

and they could not; See Gill on Matthew 17:16.

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Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit
…39And, see, a spirit takes him, and he suddenly cries out; and it tears him that he foams again, and bruising him hardly departs from him. 40And I sought your 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 your son here.

Luke 9:39 A spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It scarcely ever leaves him and is destroying him.
Luke 9:41 "You unbelieving and perverse generation," Jesus replied, "how long shall I stay with you and put up with you? Bring your son here."