Matthew 17:20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:20-21

‘And he says to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Remove hence to yonder place’, and it will remove, and nothing will be impossible to you.” ’ Jesus explains that the reason that they had failed was because of the insufficiency of their faith. That it was quality of faith and not the size of it that mattered comes out in the comment that followed. If faith is of the right quality then only... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:14-21

Matthew 17:14-Ecclesiastes : . Healing of the Demoniac Boy ( Mark 9:14-Joel : *, Luke 9:37-John :).— 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. Perhaps the story was told in Q. The father’ s appeal, “ Lord, have mercy” ( Matthew 17:15), gives us the well-known “ Kyrie eleison.” Instead of prayer (the verse ( Matthew 17:21) in Mt. is spurious) and fasting ( Mark 9:29), Jesus here puts the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 17:19-21

Mark repeats only what we have here Matthew 17:19,Matthew 17:21. The reason assigned here by our Saviour why his disciples could not cast out this devil, was their unbelief; not their total want, but the weakness of their faith. Christ here again lets us see the power of faith, and the mischief of unbelief. I take the plain sense of the text to be this, That there is nothing which may tend to the glory of God, or to our good, but may be obtained of God by a firm exercise of faith in him.... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 17:14-21

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 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 the infinitely little (Plumptre). Ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence.—Such expressions are characteristic of the vivid imagery of Eastern speech generally. To “remove mountains” is to make difficulties vanish. The Jews used to say of an eminent teacher, he is “a rooter up of mountains” (see... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 17:19-20

Matthew 17:19-20 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 other that we should not be afraid of death. We know quite well that we ought to be both the one and the other. But this is not enough; we require to learn how we may become so, as well as to know that we ought to become so. Now it was for this end that Christ lived and died openly amongst us, and... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 17:20

Matthew 17:20 The ground of faith in God and immortality is not authority or demonstration, but our sense of right. I. First, the very fact of our having a sense of right makes it probable that God exists. We do not know where that sense of right comes from. It is the one thing which the theory of development has to stop short of; it is the one thing it cannot give any credible reason for. It seems that there must be an intelligent Will outside of us who is the source of truth, a living... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Matthew 17:19-21

A Desperate Case How to Meet It January 10th, 1864 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove: and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting." Matthew 27:19-21 . The... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 17:1-27

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 divided the Bible into chapters and verses made the chapter distinction where they did. They should have taken and included the twenty-eighth verse of chapter sixteen into chapter seventeen, and it would have eliminated a lot of questions. Because Jesus is talking to His disciples there at Cesarea... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 17:1-27

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 the Divinity of the Lord, and received a blessing. James, the first martyr of the twelve, and John, had been surnamed sons of thunder. Now they were admitted to see the glory which the twelve had confessed; and it was, as it would seem, afore to prepare them to attest the agony of the Lord in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 17:20

20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Ver. 20. Because of your unbelief ] q.d. That is the naked truth of it, never deceive yourselves: there is no shuffling will serve turn: be content (hard though it be) to hear your own. Veritas aspera est, verum amaritudo eius utilior, et... read more

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