28And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
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Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? …
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-29)We have here the story of Christ casting the devil out of a child, somewhat more fully related than it was in Matt. 17:14 Observe here, I. Christ’s return to his disciples, and the perplexity he found them in. He laid aside his robes of glory, and came to look after his family, and to enquire what was become of them. Christ’s glory above does not make him forget the concerns of his church below, w…
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