If ye have (ε εχετε). Condition of the first class, assumed to be true.

Ye would say (ελεγετε αν). Imperfe…

Sycamine-tree. This name, as well as sycamore, is given among us to the large tree commonly called the buttonwood; however, the tree menti…

If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed.—These words remind us, and must have reminded the disciples, of those in Mat…

And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be tho…

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 Lord said
In answer to the disciples. The Syriac version leaves out the word "Lord": and the Persic version,…

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.