The Pulpit Commentary on Mark 9:19

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

O faithless generation. These words were no doubt intended primarily as a rebuke to the Jews and their scribes; though not without a glance at the weakness of faith of his own disciples. The words are the complaint of one weary of the unbelief of the masses and of the weakness of faith in even his own.

Bring him unto me ( φέρετε); literally, Bring ye him to me.

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