““Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 17 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.