Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 17:19 in context
Matthew 17:16–22
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So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”
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Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
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Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.
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Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
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He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
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But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.”
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While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,
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