Mateus 17

A tough kind of demon

14 As they came to the crowd a man approached Him and kneeling to Him said: 15 "Lord, have mercy on my son, because he is moonstruck and suffers badly! For he often falls into the fire and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him." 17 Then in answer Jesus said: "O faithless and perverse generation,*Why "perverse"? To reject the truth and the evidence is to be perverse. This word was presumably directed to the disciples, who should have known better by now. So how about us—are we living on the basis of the truth and the evidence? Really? how long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me." 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that very hour.