Jesus and the Boy Brought by His FatherBible World
9:14Mark 9:14
And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.
When he came to his disciples describes Jesus descending from the mount of transfiguration to the plain below to rejoin the disciples who had stayed behind, finding them encircled by a great multitude while the scribes questioned them. The event is the same one recorded in Matthew 17:9-21 and Luke 9:37-45. The scribes' questioning grew out of the disciples' failure to cast out an evil spirit from a suffering boy, and they seized on that failure to humiliate the disciples, challenge their power, stir contempt and doubt in the crowd, turn the people against them, discredit Jesus himself, and claim that neither he nor his disciples could overcome the demon. His arrival abruptly altered the scene, for the scribes fell silent, the people turned to welcome him, and he asked what the dispute was about.
In response to the disciples' failure, the people's doubts, and the scribes' boasts, he rebuked the faithless generation. The verse opens the scene in which a child afflicted and held by Satan, beyond any human power to help, is met by Jesus, lately revealed in heavenly glory as the Son of God, who stoops to him, frees him from the demon, restores his mind and body, and returns him to his father. That stooping from the Father's glory to restore the boy makes the healing an object lesson of redemption, in which the Divine One saves the lost. The scene teaches that Christ's servants cannot remain only in moments of spiritual illumination but must descend to their mission among people in need, where those enslaved by Satan await liberation through the word of faith and prayer. After Jesus healed the boy, the defeated scribes turned away sullenly while the watching people looked on in astonishment.
When he came to his disciples describes Jesus descending from the mount of transfiguration to the plain below to rejoin the disciples who had stayed behind, finding them encircled by a great multitude while the scribes questioned them. The event is the same one recorded in Matthew 17:9-21 and Luke 9:37-45. The scribes' questioning grew out of the disciples' failure to cast out an evil spirit from a suffering boy, and they seized on that failure to humiliate the disciples, challenge their power, stir contempt and doubt in the crowd, turn the people against them, discredit Jesus himself, and claim that neither he nor his disciples could overcome the demon. His arrival abruptly altered the scene, for the scribes fell silent, the people turned to welcome him, and he asked what the dispute was about.
In response to the disciples' failure, the people's doubts, and the scribes' boasts, he rebuked the faithless generation. The verse opens the scene in which a child afflicted and held by Satan, beyond any human power to help, is met by Jesus, lately revealed in heavenly glory as the Son of God, who stoops to him, frees him from the demon, restores his mind and body, and returns him to his father. That stooping from the Father's glory to restore the boy makes the healing an object lesson of redemption, in which the Divine One saves the lost. The scene teaches that Christ's servants cannot remain only in moments of spiritual illumination but must descend to their mission among people in need, where those enslaved by Satan await liberation through the word of faith and prayer. After Jesus healed the boy, the defeated scribes turned away sullenly while the watching people looked on in astonishment.