Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume VI/The Harmony of the Gospels/Book II/Chapter 58

by Philip Schaff et al.

Chapter LVIII.—Of the Man Who Brought Before Him His Son, Whom the Disciples Were Unable to Heal; And of the Question Concerning the Agreement Between These Three Evangelists Also in the Matter of the Order of Narration Here.

116. Matthew goes on in the following terms: “And when He was come^[1] to the multitude, there came to Him a certain man, kneeling down before Him, and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic, and sore vexed;” and so on, down to the words, “Howbeit this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.”^[2] Both Mark and Luke record this incident, and that, too, in the same order, without any suspicion of a want of harmony.^[3]

Footnotes

1. Venisset.
2. Matt. xvii. 14–20.
3. Mark ix. 16–28; Luke ix. 38–45.