Mark 9:39 {38}
Good News Translation
"Do not try to stop him," Jesus told them, "because no one who performs a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say evil things about me.

New Revised Standard Version
But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus said to his disciples: Don't stop him! No one who works miracles in my name will soon turn and say something bad about me.

New American Bible
Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth a miracle in my name and can soon speak ill of me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth a miracle in my name and can soon speak ill of me.

Forbid.

Mark 10:13,14 And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them. . . .

Matthew 13:28,29 And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? . . .

Philippians 1:18 But what then? So that by all means, whether by occasion or by truth, Christ be preached: in this also I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

there.

Matthew 7:22,23 Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? . . .

Acts 19:13-16 Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:27 But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

1 Corinthians 13:1,2 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. . . .

lightly.

1 Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

Context
Miracles in Jesus' Name
38John answered him, saying: Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, who followeth not us: and we forbade him. 39But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth a miracle in my name and can soon speak ill of me. 40For he that is not against you is for you.…
Cross References
Mark 9:38
John answered him, saying: Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, who followeth not us: and we forbade him.

Mark 9:40
For he that is not against you is for you.

Mark 9:38
Top of Page
Top of Page