“And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?”
After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, why couldn't we drive it out? — the private question after the public failure is the disciples' characteristic pursuit of understanding in private after confusion in public. Why couldn't we — not why couldn't he or why did it fail but the first-person plural accountability: they tried and they failed and they want to understand why. The question is the right question asked with the right humility.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!