“And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.”
Jesus asked the boy's father, how long has he been like this? From childhood, he answered — the question about duration is the most pastoral element in the exorcism narrative. Jesus asks the father how long — not to gather clinical information but to engage the father's grief. From childhood communicates a lifetime of suffering: the boy has never known life without this affliction. The duration intensifies both the suffering and the father's hope.
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