This is an important and powerful lesson for the disciples. With even a sliver of faith in His power and authority, nothing will be impossible for them. Even with that amount of faith, Jesus says, they will be able to tell a mountain to move and it will do so. In giving this reminder, Christ once again mentions the tiny mustard seed as a metaphor for living, active faith (Matthew 13:31–32). Part of the lesson here is the potency of genuine faith. Jesus reveals here that the key to that power is faith in Him. That they could perform miracles using Christ's power, at all, was an astounding reality. Perhaps they saw this specific case as too difficult. At the heart of their failure was their "little faith." They either did not trust the power previously given them by Jesus (Matthew 10:8) or they did not believe such power could be exercised through them. Jesus responds to them directly, but relatively kindly in this verse.
They have asked Him privately, away from the crowds, why they could not cast the demon out. Jesus healed the boy, but the disciples really want to understand what went wrong (Matthew 17:18–19). Their public failure prompted both an argument with some Jewish scribes, as well as an exasperated response from Jesus about their "faithless and twisted" generation (Matthew 17:14–17). They could not cast a demon from a boy who was suffering greatly. Strong's 4102: Faith, belief, trust, confidence fidelity, faithfulness.The nine disciples left behind when Jesus took Peter, James, and John up the mountain (Matthew 17:1) have failed in a critical task. Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Plural From pros and tithemi to place additionally, i.e. Strong's 4369: To place (put) to, add I do again. Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir the Lord. Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 652: From apostello a delegate specially, an ambassador of the Gospel officially a commissioner of Christ. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections the definite article the. Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Did it not imply an almost miraculous victory over natural impulses, that could be wrought only by a supernatural grace? Was not the faith that could "remove mountains" wanted, if ever, here-a faith in the pardoning love of the Father, and in their own power to reproduce it? And so, conscious of their weakness, they came with the prayer that has so often come from the lips of yearning, yet weak, disciples of the Christ-reminding us of him who cried, "Lord, I believe help thou mine unbelief" (see Note on Mark 9:24)-"Increase our faith." May we not possibly think of Peter as having struggled to obey the rule which had been given to them before ( Matthew 18:22), and as having found himself unequal to the task?
That command of a seven-fold- i.e., an unlimited-forgiveness seemed to make almost too great a strain on their faith. On the other hand, its position here indicates a sufficiently traceable sequence. The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."Īnd the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith.Īnd the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."Īnd the apostles said to the Lord, 'Add to us faith 'Įllicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) The apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.-The form in which the fragment that thus commences is brought before us suggests, as has been stated before (see Notes on Luke 7:13 Luke 10:1), that it was a comparatively late addition to the collection of "the words of the Lord Jesus" ( Acts 20:35), and this is confirmed by the exceptional use of "the Apostles" for "the disciples." It may have stood originally in an absolutely isolated form. The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" Then the apostles told the Lord, "Give us more faith!"Īnd the apostles said to the LORD, “Add to us faith” The apostles said to the Lord, "Make our faith greater." Then the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith." The apostles said to the Lord, "Make our faith stronger!"Īnd the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith. The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”Īnd The Apostles said to Our Lord, “Increase our faith.” The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.
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