Matthew 17:15
and said to him: My Lord, compassionate me. I have a son who is a lunatic, and grievously afflicted; for often he falleth into the fire, and often into the water.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
14And when they came to the multitude, a man approached him, and bowed himself on his knees,
16And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not heal him.
Cross References
Matthew 8:31And the demons entreated of him, and said: If thou cast us out, suffer us to go into the herd of swine.
Mark 5:4because, as often as he had been confined with fetters and chains, he had broken the chains and burst the fetters: and no one could subdue him.
Mark 9:17And one of the multitude replied, and said: Teacher, I have brought to thee my son, who hath a spirit that will not speak.
Luke 6:18and they who were afflicted by unclean spirits: and they were healed.
John 4:46And Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was at Capernaum a king's servant, whose son was sick.
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 →