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Privately, saying (kat' idian hoti). Indoors the nine disciples seek an explanation for their colossal failure. They had cast out demons and wrought cures before. The Revisers are here puzzled over Mark’s use of hoti as an interrogative particle meaning why where Mat 17:19 has dia ti. Some of the manuscripts have dia ti here in Mar 9:28 as all do in Mat 17:19. See also Mar 2:16 and Mar 9:11. It is probable that in these examples hoti really means why. See Robertson, Grammar, p. 730. The use of hos as interrogative “is by no means rare in the late Greek” (Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, p. 126).