Mark 9:21 {20}
Good News Translation
"How long has he been like this?" Jesus asked the father. "Ever since he was a child," he replied.

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus asked the father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus asked the boy's father, "How long has he been like this?" The man answered, "Ever since he was a child.

New American Bible
Then he questioned his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” He replied, “Since childhood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he asked his father: How long time is it since this hath happened unto him? But he sad: From his infancy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he asked his father: How long time is it since this hath happened unto him? But he sad: From his infancy.

How.

Mark 5:25 And a woman who was under an issue of blood twelve years,

Job 5:7 Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.

Job 14:1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Luke 8:43 And there was a certain woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had bestowed all her substance on physicians and could not be healed by any.

Luke 13:16 And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

John 5:5,6 And there was a certain man there that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity. . . .

John 9:1,20,21 And Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth. . . .

Acts 3:2 And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple.

Acts 4:22 For the man was above forty years old, in whom that miraculous cure had been wrought.

Acts 9:33 And he found there a certain man named Eneas, who had kept his bed for eight years, who was ill of the palsy.

Acts 14:8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

Context
The Boy with an Evil Spirit
20And they brought him. And when he had seen him, immediately the spirit troubled him and being thrown down upon the ground, he rolled about foaming. 21And he asked his father: How long time is it since this hath happened unto him? But he sad: From his infancy. 22And oftentimes hath he cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do any thing, help us, having compassion on us.…
Cross References
Mark 9:20
And they brought him. And when he had seen him, immediately the spirit troubled him and being thrown down upon the ground, he rolled about foaming.

Mark 9:22
And oftentimes hath he cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do any thing, help us, having compassion on us.

Mark 9:20
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