Matthew 17:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The rebuke and the cure:

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Matthew 17:17-18

¹⁷ Then Jesus answered and said,O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

¹⁸ And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

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