Matthew 17:14-20

Christian Standard Bible

The Power of Jesus over a Demon

¹⁴ When they reached the crowd,^(A) a man approached and knelt down before him. ¹⁵ “Lord,” he said, “have mercy on my son, because he has seizures^[a] and suffers terribly. He often falls into the fire and often into the water. ¹⁶ I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him.”^(B)

¹⁷ Jesus replied, “You unbelieving and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”^{(C) 18} Then Jesus rebuked the demon,^[b] and it^[c] came out of him,^(D) and from that moment^[d] the boy was healed.

¹⁹ Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

²⁰ “Because of your little faith,” he^[e] told them. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of ^[f] a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.^(E) Nothing will be impossible for you.”^[g](F)