Matthew 17:20-22 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 17:14-21

We have here the miraculous cure of a child that was lunatic and vexed with a devil. Observe, I. A melancholy representation of the case of this child, made to Christ by the afflicted father. This was immediately upon his coming down from the mountain where he was transfigured. Note, Christ's glories do not make him unmindful of us and of our wants and miseries. Christ, when he came down from the mount, where had conversation with Moses and Elias, did not take state upon him, but was as easy... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 17:22-23

Christ here foretels his own sufferings; he began to do it before (Matt. 16:21); and, finding that it was to his disciples a hard saying, he saw it necessary to repeat it. There are some things which God speaketh once, yea twice, and yet man perceiveth it not. Observe here, 1. What he foretold concerning himself?that he should be betrayed and killed. He perfectly knew, before, all things that should come to him, and yet undertook the work of our redemption, which greatly commends his love;... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 17:14-20

17:14-20 When they came to the crowd, a man came to him and fell at his feet and said, "Sir, have pity on my son, for he is an epileptic, and he suffers severely; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water; and I brought him to your disciples, and they were not able to cure him." Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me!" And Jesus spoke sternly to him, and the demon came out of him,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 17:20

And Jesus said unto them, because of your unbelief ,.... The Arabic and Ethiopic versions read, "because of your little faith", or "the smallness of your faith"; and so does one Greek manuscript; and which is what is doubtless meant by their unbelief; for they were not altogether destitute of faith, but their faith was very low, and their unbelief very great. Christ says, not because of the unbelief of the parent of the child, and those that were with him, though that also was a reason; but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 17:21

Howbeit, this kind goeth not out ,.... The Vulgate Latin renders it, "is not cast out"; and so do the Arabic version, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel; and which confirm the more commonly received sense of these words, that they are to be understood of that kind of devils, one of which was cast out of the lunatic, and was of the worst sort, of a fierce and obstinate kind; and having had long possession, was not easily ejected: and that there is a difference in devils, some are worse and more... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 17:22

And while they abode in Galilee ,.... Munster's Hebrew Gospel reads it וכשהלכו , "and while they were walking in Galilee", for they passed through it, when they departed from hence; see Mark 9:30 and as they were going to Capernaum, and so onward, to the coasts of Judea, in order to be at Jerusalem at the feast of the passover; where, and when, Christ was to suffer: and observing that the time of his death drew nigh, he inculcates it again to his disciples a third time, that they might... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:20

Because of your unbelief - Are we preachers of the Gospel? Do the things of God rest upon our minds with a deep and steady conviction? Can we expect that a doctrine which we do not, from conviction, credit ourselves, can be instrumental in our hands of begetting faith in others? So we preached, end so ye believed. The word preached generally begets in the people the same spirit which the preacher possesses. Instead of απιϚιαν , unbelief, the famous Vatican MS. and Cod. Cyprius, six others,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:21

This kind goeth not out but by prayer, etc. - Τουτο το γενος , this kind, some apply to the faith which should be exercised on the occasion, which goeth not out, doth not exert itself, but by prayer and fasting; but this interpretation is, in my opinion, far from solid. However, there is great difficulty in the text. The whole verse is wanting in the famous Vatican MS., one of the most ancient and most authentic perhaps in the world; and in another one of Colbert's, written in the 11th or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:22

They abode in Galilee - Lower Galilee, where the city of Capernaum was. The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men - Μελλει - παραδιδοσθαι εις χειρας - The Son of man is about to be delivered into the hands, etc. I am fully of the mind of two eminent critics, Grotius and Wakefield, that παραδιδοσθαι should be here translated delivered, or delivered up, not betrayed; and that the agency, in this case, should be referred to God, not to Judas. Jesus was delivered up, by... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:21

Verse 21 21.This kind goeth not out, (492) By this expression Christ reproved the negligence of certain persons, in order to inform them that it was not an ordinary faith which was required; for otherwise they might have replied that they were not altogether destitute of faith The meaning therefore is, that it is not every kind of faith that will suffice, when we have to enter into a serious conflict with Satan, but that vigorous efforts are indispensably necessary. For the weakness of faith he... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 17:14-21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 17:22-23

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 17:14-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 17:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 17:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 17:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:21

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