Matthew 17:15
"Master, take pity on my son, for he is an epileptic and sore distressed. Often he falls into the fire and often into the water.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
14As they reached the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, and fell on his knees before him, saying.
16"And I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him."
Cross References
Matthew 8:31and the demons began entreating him. "If you are driving us out," they said, "send us into the herd of swine."
Mark 5:4Not even with a chain could any man bind him, for he had been bound with fetters and chains again and again, and had snapped the chains, and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him.
Mark 9:17"Master," answered one of the crowd, "I brought my son to you; he has a dumb spirit in him;
Luke 6:18Those who were tormented by unclean spirits were healed also.
John 4:46So he came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king’s officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.
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 →