Matthew Chapter 17 verse 19 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 17:19

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast it out?
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BBE Matthew 17:19

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, Why were we not able to send it out?
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DARBY Matthew 17:19

Then the disciples, coming to Jesus apart, said [to him], Why were not *we* able to cast him out?
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KJV Matthew 17:19

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
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WBT Matthew 17:19


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WEB Matthew 17:19

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"
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YLT Matthew 17:19

Then the disciples having come to Jesus by himself, said, `Wherefore were we not able to cast him out?'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - Apart (κατ ἰδίαν). Jesus had retired to a house (Mark) when the disciples came to him. The question which they desired to ask was one that could not he investigated in the presence of the sneering, unbelieving crowd. Why could not we (ἡμεῖς, emphatic) cast him (αὐρὸ, it) out? They had keenly felt their impotence and failure, so publicly and distressingly displayed, especially as they had received power to eject demons, and had successfully exercised this authority (Luke 10:17). The Lord's rebuke (ver. 17) had passed over their heads, and not been understood as applicable to themselves. So it was with some bitterness that they asked the question. The nine had not been permitted to witness the Transfiguration; they were not even to be made acquainted with this wondrous transaction at present. More preparation, greater receptivity, was required, before they were fit to be admitted to the full mysteries of the kingdom. They had still much to learn, were still only pupils, and their late failure was permitted in order to help them to attain to self-knowledge and more entire self-surrender.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Why could not we cast him out?--The question came obviously from the disciples who had been left below when our Lord went apart with Peter, James, and John, to the Mount of the Transfiguration. They did not even now see the reason of their failure. They had dealt with this case as they had dealt with others. Why had they not met with a like issue? They did not as yet perceive that they came under our Lord's language of rebuke, and did not look on themselves as belonging to the "faithless generation."