16. I brought him to your disciples, but none of them could heal him.”
17. Jesus said, “You people are too stubborn to have any faith! How much longer must I be with you? Why do I have to put up with you? Bring the boy here.”
18. Then Jesus spoke sternly to the demon. It went out of the boy, and at once he was healed.
19. Later the disciples went to Jesus in private and asked him, “Why couldn't we force out the demon?”
20-21. Jesus replied:It is because you don't have enough faith! But I can promise you this. If you had faith no larger than a mustard seed, you could tell this mountain to move from here to there. And it would. Everything would be possible for you.
22. While Jesus and his disciples were going from place to place in Galilee, he told them, “The Son of Man will be handed over to people
23. who will kill him. But three days later he will rise to life.” All this made the disciples very sad.
24. When Jesus and the others arrived in Capernaum, the collectors for the temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your teacher pay the temple tax?”