Matthew 17:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

O faithless

How long shall i be

General references

Matthew 17:26

Bible References

O faithless

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!

He *said to them, “Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm.

And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.

But Jesus, aware of this, said, “You men of little faith, why do you discuss among yourselves that you have no bread?

And He *answered them and *said, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!”

Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen.

And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Then He *said to Thomas, “Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”

For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

How long shall i be

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?

“For forty years I loathed that generation,
And said they are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not know My ways.

“How long, O

naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?

And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?

How long will you lie down, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?

Wash your heart from evil, O Jerusalem,
That you may be saved.
How long will your wicked thoughts
Lodge within you?

For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

General references

When Peter said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are exempt.