Matthew 17:18

16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”

17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O¹ faithless and ^aperverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”

18 And Jesus ^arebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”

20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your¹ unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, ^aif you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Matthew 17:18

Jesus rebuked the devil - Deprived him of all power to torment the child; and obliged him to abandon his present usurped habitation.

There are some souls whose cure God reserves to himself alone, and to whom all the applications of his ministers appear to be utterly ineffectual. He sometimes does all without them, that they may know they can never do any good without him. Quesnel.

Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 17:18:

Matthew 17:15
Luke 9:42

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