And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
Ver. 28. See Matthew 17:19,21. The history of the dispossession of the devil out of many persons together in a room in Lancashire, at the prayer of some godly ministers, is very famous. Read the book and judge. These ministers (being Nonconformists) were questioned for it in the High Commission Court, as if it had been a device to strengthen the credit of their cause. Saint's Everl. Rest.