Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Matthew 17:16

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 81, footnote 23 (Image)

Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen

The Diatessaron of Tatian. (HTML)

The Diatessaron. (HTML)

Section XXIV. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1723 (In-Text, Margin)

... from that multitude, and fell upon his knees, and said unto him, I beseech thee, my Lord, look upon my son; he is my [31] only child: and the spirit cometh upon him suddenly. A lunacy hath come upon [32] him, and he meeteth with evils. And when it cometh upon him, it beateth him about; [33] and he foameth, and gnasheth his teeth, and wasteth; and many times it hath thrown him into the water and into the fire to destroy him, and it hardly leaveth him after [34] [Arabic, p. 95] bruising him.[Matthew 17:16] And I brought him near to thy disciples, and they could [35] not heal him. Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, till when shall I be with you? and till when shall I bear with you? bring thy son [36] hither. And he brought ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 6, page 154, footnote 17 (Image)

Augustine: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels

The Harmony of the Gospels. (HTML)

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Of the Man Who Brought Before Him His Son, Whom the Disciples Were Unable to Heal; And of the Question Concerning the Agreement Between These Three Evangelists Also in the Matter of the Order of Narration Here. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1103 (In-Text, Margin)

116. Matthew goes on in the following terms: “And when He was come to the multitude, there came to Him a certain man, kneeling down before Him, and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic, and sore vexed;” and so on, down to the words, “Howbeit this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.”[Matthew 17:14-20] Both Mark and Luke record this incident, and that, too, in the same order, without any suspicion of a want of harmony.