Matthew 17:17
Jesus answered and said, “Unbelieving and corrupt generation, how long will I have to stay with you? How long must I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
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In Context
16I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
18Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that hour.
Cross References
Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says this: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go so that they may worship me.
Numbers 14:11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long must this people despise me? How long must they fail to trust me, despite all the signs of my power that I have done among them?
Psalms 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation 1 and said, 'This is a people whose hearts wander astray; 1 they have not known my ways.' 1
Proverbs 6:9How long will you sleep, you lazy person? 1 When will you rise from your sleep? 1
Matthew 6:30If God so clothes the grass in the fields, which exists today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith?
Matthew 13:58He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 17:15-22
The Expulsion of a Demon. 14 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 is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. 16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. 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;… Read the whole commentary →