²⁴ Immediately the father of the child cried out^[a] and said, “I believe; ^(A)help my unbelief!” ²⁵ And when Jesus saw that ^(B)a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, ^(C)“You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” ²⁶ And after crying out and ^(D)convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.”