17
And one out [ek]
of the
crowd
answered him:
Teacher, I brought my
son
to you having a speechless
spirit;
18
and wherever it seizes him it convulses him
[1x], and he foams [1x] and grinds/grates [trizw
not brugmoj]
[literally sqeaks not gnashes] the
teeth [28x for 28 human teeth]
and dries-up/withers
[1x]. And I spoke to your
disciples
in order that they might expel it, but they were not capable.
19
But the [one] said to them in-response: Oh faithless
generation, how long must I continue with you? How long must I put up with you?
[the account will answer this question]
Bring him to me.
20
So they brought him to him. But having seen him the
spirit
immediately caused him to convulse
[1x], and having fallen upon the
earth
[1x+1x=2x]
he was rolling about, foaming
[1x].
21
And he asked his
father:
For how much time
is it [that epileptic fits] as [wV] this have been happening to him? And the [one] said: out of from-early-childhood [1x].
22
and many-times [pollakij][2x] it would throw him both into
fire
[1x]
and into
waters
[2x]
in order to destroy him. But if you can do anything, pity us and help us.
23
But
Jesus
said to him: The [expression], 'If you can'! [Why], all [things] [are] possible for the faithful [one].
24
Immediately crying out, the
father
of the
little-boy
was saying: I have-faith!
Help me with
faithlessness!
25
But
Jesus,
having seen that a
crowd
was running together upon [them], rebuked
the
spirit,
the unclean [one]
[does make sense singly, so this is a double designation and LCNC and LINC are divisible by 3], saying to it:
The
speechless and deaf
spirit, I order you, get out of him and enter into him no more.
26
And having cried out and having convulsed repeatedly, it came out [this is said to befall the unclean spirit not the boy]; and he became as if [wsei]
dead
[1x], so that the many of them were saying that he had died
[he was dead.
The demon just unpossessed him and left his dead body behind. Jesus then resurrected him back into his body].
27
But
Jesus
having grasped [kratew]
of his hand
[5x] [genitive direct object]
raised him up [1x], and he rose [1x]
(Mark 9).
The Question Answering Principle insists that this account will answer the question that Jesus asks: Oh faithless generation, how long must I continue with you? How long must I put up with you? Obviously the first part of the first presence lasted for less than a generation!
Total count of the experiences of the boy under possession: 1x+1x+28x+1x+1x+2x+1x+1x+2x.(1x+2x)+1x+5x+1x+1x = 50x from 29Tishri10, the baptism of Jesus, to 79Tishri14, the end of the first part of the 2nd presence (50 Tishri1 year starts).
Matthew 17:14-21 and Mark 9:14-29 and Luke 9:37-43 are parallel. And Matthew 17:21 is canonical.