Matthew 17:19
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
KJV
Τότε προσελθόντες οἱ μαθηταὶ τῷ Ἰησοῦ κατ’ ἰδίαν εἶπον· διὰ τί ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἠδυνήθημεν ἐκβαλεῖν αὐτό;
Greek NT
Dixit illis Jesus : Propter incredulitatem vestram. Amen quippe dico vobis, si habueritis fidem sicut granum sinapis, dicetis monti huic : Transi hinc illuc, et transibit, et nihil impossibile erit vobis.
Vulgate
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast it out?
ASV
Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain: Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove: and nothing shall be impossible to you.
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15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 12:9 — To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
- Acts 3:16 — And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
- Job 22:30 — He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
- Judg 1:19 — And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
- Mark 9:18 — And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
- Mark 9:28 — And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
- Mark 9:28 — And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
- Matt 17:16 — And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
- Matt 24:3 — And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
- Ps 106:34 — They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: