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Why couldn't we drive the demon out? Jesus gives the answer, that they did not have enough faith. Faith is the means to tap into the power of Jesus. You could do anything! They could, if they had the right kind of faith.
Verse Matthew 17:19. _WHY COULD NOT WE CAST HIM OUT?_] They were confounded at their want of success-but not at their want of faith, which was the cause of their miscarriage! When the ministers of th...
THEN CAME THE DISCIPLES ... - This inquiry was made in some house to which they retired near the place where the miracle was performed (Mark). Jesus told them, in reply, that it was because of their u...
5. THE COMING GLORY; the Helpless Disciples and the Power of the King. The Tribute Money. CHAPTER 17 1. The Transfiguration. (Matthew 17:1 .) 2. The Helpless Disciples and the Power of the King. (M...
HEALING OF THE DEMONIAC BOY (Mark 9:14 *, Luke 9:37). The story is much shorter than in Mk. The reference to possession does not come till the end; in Matthew 17:15 the child is described as epileptic...
EVERY TREE, ETC., ETC., IS HEWN DOWN AND CAST INTO THE FIRE. The test by which good and bad trees, good and bad men, and good and bad systems have been presented. Now the figure is carried farther to...
THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION (Matthew 17:1-8)...
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 in...
WHY COULD NOT WE CAST HIM OUT?. Why were not we able to east it out? See notes on Matthew 21:21, and Luke 17:5....
A Lunatic Child is cured Mark 9:14-29, where the scene and the symptoms of the disease are described with great particularity. Luke 9:37-42....
A LUNATIC CHILD IS CURED Mark 9:14-29, where the scene and the symptoms of the disease are described with great particularity. Luke 9:37-42....
VER 19. THEN CAME THE DISCIPLES TO JESUS APART, AND SAID, "WHY COULD NOT WE CAST HIM OUT?" 20. AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, "BECAUSE OF YOUR UNBELIEF: FOR VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, IF YE HAVE FAITH AS A GRA...
_JESUS IN HIS POWER, HEALING MATTHEW 17:14-21:_ Following that heavenly transformation there is an earthly problem for Jesus to deal with. An epileptic, demon possessed boy had been brought to Jesus'...
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Section 43 JESUS HEALS AND FREES A DEMONIZED BOY (Parallels: Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43 a) TEXT: 17:14-21 14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a man, kneeling to him, and s...
And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, For the exposition of this portion, see the notes at Mark 9:14....
28 See 2Pe_1:16-18. 28 This prediction was fulfilled about a week later when He took His most intimate disciples with Him and they saw His power and presence and were spectators of His magnificence (2...
THE TRANSFIGURATION 1-8. The Transfiguration (Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28). St. Leo rightly apprehended the historical situation when he said that in the Transfiguration the principal object aimed at was tha...
HEALING OF THE LUNATIC (epileptic) (Mark 9:14; Luke 9:37). St. Mark's account is much the fullest. Christ descends from the mount to resume His works of benevolence. He who had communed with God and H...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 17 JESUS CHANGED HIS APPEARANCE 17:1-13 V1 Six days later Jesus took Peter, James and John (who was James’s brother) with him. He le...
WHY COULD NOT WE CAST HIM OUT? — The question came obviously from the disciples who had been left below when our Lord went apart with Peter, James, and John, to the Mount of the Transfiguration. They...
κατʼ ἰδίαν : the disciples have some private talk with the Master as to what has just happened. διατί οὐκ ἠδυνήθημεν : the question implies that the experience was exceptional; in other words that on...
_The epileptic boy_ (Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43). Very brief report compared with Mk....
LACK OF FAITH REBUKED Matthew 17:9-21 As Raphael suggests in his great painting, there is a close connection between the mountain and the valley. The glory of the one did not make our Lord indifferen...
"After six days." Days of silence. No record have we of what transpired in those days. The strange declarations of the Cross had crushed the hearts of these men. Now to three of their number, as speci...
(3) Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? (3) Incredulity and distrust hinder and break the direction of God's benefits....
If you have faith as a grain of mustard-seed. Christ insinuates to his apostles, as if they had not yet faith enough to work great miracles, which require a firm faith joined with a lively confidence...
DEMONIACAL EJECTMENT Matthew 17:14-21; Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43. Mark: _“And having come to His disciples, He saw a great crowd round them, and the scribes arguing with them.”_ He and the three disc...
"And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, (15) Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is a lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he fall...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_FAITH AND SERVICE_ ‘Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?’ Matthew 17:19 I. THE SECRET OF FAITH.—Still, as in olden time, it is the contemplation of the...
Matthew 17:19._Then the disciples coming. _The disciples wonder that the power which they once possessed has been taken from them; but they had lost it by their own fault. Christ therefore attributes...
Jesus leads them up into a high mountain, and there is transfigured before them: "His face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." Moses and Elias appeared also, talking with Hi...
THEN CAME THE DISCIPLES TO JESUS APART,.... Or "secretly", as the Vulgate Latin, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel read; that is, privately, and when alone; and as Mark says, "when he was come into the hous...
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? Ver. 19. _Why could not we cast him out?_] They had heard why before, but either heeded it not or were not willing to...
_Then came the disciples to Jesus_ Namely, the nine disciples, who had been left with the multitude, when Jesus and the three others went up to the mount. They were silent before the multitude, ashame...
THEN CAME THE DISCIPLES TO JESUS APART AND SAID, WHY COULD NOT WE CAST HIM OUT?...
Christ explains the failure:...
Only six days intervened before the three disciples witnessed the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus. Luke says, "about eight days after these things," for no doubt he counts the day the Lord spoke, an...
14-21 The case of afflicted children should be presented to God by faithful and fervent prayer. Christ cured the child. Though the people were perverse, and Christ was provoked, yet care was taken of...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 17:21"....
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X but among unbelievers not only did the powers not work, but as Mark wrote, "They could not work."[129]...
Matthew 17:19 Then G5119 disciples G3101 came G4334 (G5631) Jesus G2424 privately G2596 G2398 said G2036 ...
‘Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” ' The disciples were deeply concerned by their failure. And when they were able to get Jesus alone they came to Him...
THE PROBLEM OF UNBELIEF, THE REASON FOR UNBELIEF, AND THE ONE WHO WILL TRIUMPH THROUGH FAITH (17:14-23). At the commencement of this section we learned of the problem of unbelief (Matthew 13:58) which...
THE REASON FOR THEIR FAILURE (17:19-21). The disciples learn that their failure was due to the lack of quality in their faith. What was needed was the kind of faith that can only be built up by depth...
All three Evangelists place this miracle immediately after the transfiguration (Luke: ‘the next day'). This ‘may be regarded as one of the evidences of the genuineness and authenticity of the narrativ...
Matthew 17:19. TO JESUS APART. In a ‘house' (Mark 9:28)....
Matthew 17:19 I. There are two different ideas about the way in which the problems of the world are to be solved, the salvation of the world, whatever it is, is to be brought about. Pure irreligion lo...
Matthew 17:19 Christ our Pattern. I. There are two things very hard to our moral natures, and yet most necessary to our happiness; the one of these is that we should be very much afraid of sin, the o...
CONTENTS: The transfiguration of Jesus Christ. The powerless disciples, unable to heal a lunatic, and the mighty Christ. Resurrection again foretold. Miracle of the tribute money. CHARACTERS: God, Je...
Matthew 17:2. _He was transfigured before them._ Μεταμορφωθη, was transformed before them. Matthew, Mark, and Luke record this vision; and name the three selected witnesses. Peter had just confessed t...
JESUS HEALS A DEMON-POSSESSED BOY MATTHEW 17:14-21; MARK 9:14-29; LUKE 9:37-43; MATTHEW 17:14 And when they were come to the mult
CHAPTER 17 _And after six days_, &c. There seems to be here a discrepancy with Luke 9:28, who says, _it came to pass about an eight days after these things._ S. Jerome answers, "The solution is simple...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 17:15. LUNATICK.—_Epileptic_ (R.V.). “The child was a possessed epileptic lunatic.” Matthew 17:20. GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED.—See note on Matthew 13:31. The proverbial type of
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 17:1 _The Transfiguration of Jesus_._ _(Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28.) This mysterious event was intended primarily to confirm the faith of the three apostles who were to h
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Matthew chapter seventeen. The seventeenth chapter of Matthew actually begins with the twenty-eighth verse of the sixteenth chapter. It's unfortunate that the men who d...
Mark 4:10; Mark 9:28...
Observe here, How ashamed the disciples were of this open rebuke given them by their Master; they privately ask him the case of their ill success, WHY THEY COULD NOT CAST OUT SATAN, according to the p...