Mark 4:10; Mark 9:28
Then came the disciples ... - This inquiry was made in some house to which they retired near the place where the miracle was performed (Mark). Je...
(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...
Healing of the Demoniac Boy ( Mark 9:14-29 *, Luke 9:37-43 ). The story is much shorter than in Mk. The reference to possession does not come til...
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 .
Matthew 17:19 . Then the disciples coming. The disciples wonder that the power which they once possessed has been taken from them; but they...
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? Why could not we cast him out? - They were confounded at their want...
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 portio...
The Transfiguration 1-8. The Transfiguration ( Mark 9:2 ; Luke 9:28 ). St. Leo rightly apprehended the historical situation when he said that in...
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...
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,...
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 valle...
"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 o...
"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...
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 ....
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart ,.... Or "secretly", as the Vulgate Latin, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel read; that is, privately, and when alo...
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 bef...
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 m...
Only six days intervened before the three disciples witnessed the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus. Luke says, "about eight days after these things,...
The Expulsion of a Demon. 14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came...
See Poole on " Matthew 17:21 " .
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 le...
‘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...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 17:15 . Lunatick. — Epileptic (R.V.). “The child was a possessed epileptic lunatic.” Matthew 17:20 . Grain of mustard...
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, what...
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...
Matthew 17:2 . He was transfigured before them. Μεταμορφωθη, was transformed before them. Matthew, Mark, and Luke record this vision; and name the...
EXPOSITION Matthew 17:1-40 The Transfiguration of Jesus . ( Mark 9:2-41 ; Luke 9:28-42 .) This mysterious event was intended primarily...
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart and said, Why could not we cast him out?
Christ explains the failure:
19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?