Mark 9:28 meaning and explanation

After Jesus had gone into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

Mark 9:28, Berean Standard Bible

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The disciples ask this privately, indoors, right after Jesus cast a mute spirit out of a boy that they had failed to deliver. Their question is not hostile but puzzled: they had been sent out with authority to drive out demons, and it had worked before.

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