mnt - Matthew:17:14-23

mnt@Matthew:17:14 @ As they reached the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, and fell on his knees before him, saying.

mnt@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.

mnt@Matthew:17:16 @ "And I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him."

mnt@Matthew:17:17 @ In reply Jesus said. "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me!"

mnt@Matthew:17:18 @ Then Jesus rebuked the evil spirit, and it came out of him; and the boy was cured from that very hour.

mnt@Matthew:17:19 @ Thereupon Jesus disciples came to him and asked him privately, "Why were we not able to cast it out?"

mnt@Matthew:17:20 @ "Because of your little faith," he answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that if you have faith the size of a mustard-seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from this place to that! and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

mnt@Matthew:17:21 @ "But this kind is driven out by prayer alone."

mnt@Matthew:17:22 @ As they continued going from place to place in Galilee, Jesus said to them. "The Son of man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men;

mnt@Matthew:17:23 @ "and they will kill him, but on the third day he will rise again." And they were greatly grieved.