16. I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”
17. Then Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”
18. Jesus rebuked the demon, and he came out of him. And the child was healed instantly.
19. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast him out?”
20. Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For truly I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. And nothing will be impossible for you.
21. But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
22. While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men,
23. and they will kill Him, and He will be raised on the third day.” And they were extremely sorrowful.
24. When they came to Capernaum, those who collected tax money came to Peter and said, “Does your Teacher not pay the tax?”
25. He said, “Yes.”And when he came home, Jesus stopped him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take custom or taxes? From their own sons or from strangers?”
26. Peter said to Him, “From strangers.”Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free.