Matthew 17:14-21

Living Bible

¹⁴ When they arrived at the bottom of the hill, a huge crowd was waiting for them. A man came and knelt before Jesus and said, ¹⁵ “Sir, have mercy on my son, for he is mentally deranged and in great trouble, for he often falls into the fire or into the water; ¹⁶ so I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn’t cure him.”

¹⁷ Jesus replied, “Oh, you stubborn, faithless people! How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me.” ¹⁸ Then Jesus rebuked the demon in the boy and it left him, and from that moment the boy was well.

¹⁹ Afterwards the disciples asked Jesus privately, “Why couldn’t we cast that demon out?”

²⁰ “Because of your little faith,” Jesus told them. “For if you had faith even as small as a tiny mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move!’ and it would go far away. Nothing would be impossible. ²¹ But this kind of demon won’t leave unless you have prayed and gone without food.”^[a]