Luke 9:40

Amplified Bible

"I begged Your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t.”

King James Version (1611)
And I besought thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not.

King James Version
And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not.

English Standard Version
And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

New American Standard Bible
"And I begged Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not."

New Century Version
I begged your followers to force the evil spirit out, but they could not do it."

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

Legacy Standard Bible
And I begged Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not."

Berean Standard Bible
I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable."

Contemporary English Version
I begged your disciples to force out the demon, but they couldn't do it."

Complete Jewish Bible
I asked your talmidim to drive the spirit out, but they couldn't."

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

Easy-to-Read Version
I begged your followers to make the evil spirit leave my son, but they could not do it."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe I haue besought thy disciples to cast him out, but they could not.

George Lamsa Translation
And I besought your disciples to cast it out; and they could not.

Good News Translation
I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't."

Lexham English Bible
And I begged your disciples that they would expel it, and they were not able to do so."

Literal Translation
And I begged Your disciples, that they cast it out. And they were not able.

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

Bible in Basic English
And I made a request to your disciples to send it out of him, but they were not able to do it.

Hebrew Names Version
I begged your talmidim to cast it out, and they couldn't."

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

Etheridge Translation
And I besought thy disciples to cast him out, but they could not.

Murdock Translation
And I requested thy disciples to expel him; and they could not.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I besought thy disciples to cast hym out, and they coulde not.

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

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And I besought thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y preiede thi disciplis, that thei schulden caste hym out, and thei myyten not.

Update Bible Version
And I implored your 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.

New English Translation
I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so."

New King James Version
So I implored Your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

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

New Life Bible
I begged Your followers to put the demon out, but they could not."

New Revised Standard
I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I begged of thy disciples, that they would cast it out, and they could not.

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

Revised Standard Version
And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I besought thy disciples to cast him out and they coulde not.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I besought thy disciples to cast him out, and they coulde not.

Mace New Testament (1729)
I desired your disciples to cast out this spirit; but they were not able.

Simplified Cowboy Version
I took him to some of your cowboys, but they couldn't help him."

Contextual Overview

³⁷On the next day, when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met Him. ³⁸And a man from the crowd shouted for help, "Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, because he is my only child; ³⁹and a spirit seizes him, and suddenly he cries out, and it throws him into a convulsion so that he foams at the mouth; and only with [great] difficulty does it leave him, mauling and bruising him as it leaves. ⁴⁰"I begged Your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."⁴¹Jesus answered, "You unbelieving and perverted generation! How long shall I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here [to Me]." ⁴²Even while the boy was coming, the demon slammed him down and threw him into a [violent] convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy and gave him back to his father.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and they: Luke 9:1, Luke 10:17-19, 2 Kings 4:31, Matthew 17:20, Matthew 17:21, Acts 19:13-16

Reciprocal: Matthew 17:16 - and they Mark 9:18 - and they

Gill's Notes on the 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;

:-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the Matthew 17:14-21 notes, and Mark 9:14-29 notes.