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13 aThen the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.  

A Boy Is Healed

14 aAnd when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,  
15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is1 an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.  
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.”  
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Matthew 17:15

Epileptic (selhniazetai). Literally, "moonstruck," "lunatic." The symptoms of epilepsy were supposed to be aggravated by the changes of the moon (cf. Matthew 4:24).

He has it bad (kakwv exei) as often in the Synoptic Gospels.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 17:15:

Matthew 4:24
Mark 9:14
Luke 9:38
Luke 9:39

 

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