Matthew 17:15
My Lord, have mercy on me! my son is lunatic and grievously afflicted; for often he falleth into the fire and often into the water.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
16And I brought him to thy disciples, but they could not heal him.
Cross References
Matthew 8:31Those demons, therefore, supplicated from him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go into the herd of swine.
Mark 5:4for, so often as with shackles and chains he had been bound, the chains he had broken, and the shackles he had burst asunder; and no man could subdue him.
Mark 9:17And one from the company answered and said, Malphona, I had brought my son to thee, because he hath a spirit which speaketh not;
Luke 6:18who had come to hear his words, and to be healed of their diseases; and they who were vexed by unclean spirits, and they were healed.
John 4:46So Jeshu came again into Kotna of Galila, where he had made the waters wine. And there was at Kapher-nachum the servant of a certain king, whose son was ill.
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 →