Increase (προσθες). Second aorist active imperative of προστιθημ, to add to. Bruce thinks that this sounds much like the stereotyp…

Increase our faith. This duty of forgiving offenses seemed so difficult to the disciples that they strongly felt the need for an increase …

The apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.—The form in which the fragment that thus begins is brought before us…

And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

For this kind of patient forgiving seemed too much for them, unless they h…

Theophylact of Ohrid: When the disciples heard our Lord discussing certain difficult duties, such as poverty and avoiding o…

The apostles may have felt that this kind of forgiveness would demand more faith than they had. The black mulberry tree grew quite large, to a heig…

And the apostles said unto the Lord Either on account of what was now said by Christ concerning offences, and forgiving i…

It is no reduction of the guilt of those by whom an offense comes, nor will the fact that offenses will come lessen their punishment.

Faith …