Matthew 17:14 — Community Reflections

MATTHEW 17:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,”

And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, said. The descent from the mountain into the crowd — from the glory of the transfiguration to the need of a desperate father — is the movement of incarnation itself: the one who exists in divine glory descends into human suffering. The kneeling father communicates the posture of desperate dependence.

Church Fathers on Matthew 17:14

Peter, anxious for such desirable life, and preferring his own benefit to that of many, had said, 'It is good for us to be here.' But since charity seeks not her own, Jesus did not this which seemed good to Peter, but descended to the multitude, as it were from the high mount of His divinity, that He might be of use to such as could not ascend because of the weakness of their souls; whence it is said, 'And when he was come to the multitude;' for if He had not gone to the…
Origen · 3rd century

is to be noted, that were not man fortified here by Providence, he would long since have perished; for the daemon who cast him into the fire, and into the water, would have killed him outright, had God not restrained him.
Chrysostom · 4th century

In saying, 'And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not heal him,' he covertly accuses the Apostles, whereas that a cure is impossible is sometimes the effect not of want of power in those that undertake it, but of want of faith in those that are to be healed.
Jerome · 4th century

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