Matthew 17:19 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, "Why couldn't we force the demon out of the boy?"(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?

ASV:

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast it out?

BBE:

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, Why were we not able to send it out?

DBY:

Then the disciples, coming to Jesus apart, said to him, Why were not we able to cast him out?

ERV:

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast it out?

WEY:

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked Him, "Why could not we expel the demon?"

WBS:

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?

WEB:

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"

YLT:

Then the disciples having come to Jesus by himself, said, 'Wherefore were we not able to cast him out?'

Matthew 17:19 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 17:18 And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured at once.

Matthew 17:20 And He said to them, "Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

17:19 {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 God's benefits.

PNT:

17:19 Why could not we cast him out? The answer is, Lack of faith.

MHC:

17:14-21 The case of afflicted children should be presented to God by faithful and fervent prayer. Christ cured the child. Though the people were perverse, and Christ was provoked, yet care was taken of the child. When all other helps and succours fail, we are welcome to Christ, may trust in him, and in his power and goodness. See here an emblem of Christ's undertaking as our Redeemer. It encourages parents to bring children to Christ, whose souls are under Satan's power; he is able to heal them, and as willing as he is able. Not only bring them to Christ by prayer, but bring them to the word of Christ; to means by which Satan's strong-holds in the soul are beaten down. It is good for us to distrust ourselves and our own strength; but it is displeasing to Christ when we distrust any power derived from him, or granted by him. There was also something in the malady which rendered the cure difficult. The extraordinary power of Satan must not discourage our faith, but quicken us to more earnestness in praying to God for the increase of it. Do we wonder to see Satan's bodily possession of this young man from a child, when we see his spiritual possession of every son of Adam from the fall!

CONC:

Able Apart Cast Couldn't Demon Disciples Drive Expel Private Privately Weren't Wherefore

Able Apart Cast Couldn't Demon Disciples Drive Expel Jesus Private Privately Weren't Wherefore

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