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Jesus said to him, "If you can believe? All things are possible to him who believes."
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The Real Question of 'If'
Commentators unanimously note that Jesus turns the father's doubtful phrase—"if you can do anything"—back on him. Jesus's response, "If you can believe," shifts the focus entirely. The issue was never a lack of power in Christ, but a potential lack of faith in the man. The question isn't about God's ability, but our trust in it.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If thou canst believe. This was an answer to the request; and there was a reference in the answer to the doubt in the man's mind …
If thou canst (το ε δυνη). The Greek has a neat idiom not preserved in the English translation. The article takes up the very word…
19th Century
Anglican
If you can believe.—The better manuscripts omit the word “believe,” and the sentence without it is taken as expressing th…
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Baptist
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Hear that, any of you who have come in h…
16th Century
Protestant
If you can believe. “You ask me,” he says, “to aid you as far as I can; but you will find in me an inexhaustible fountain of power, provid…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Jesus said unto him, if thou canst believe As the man put an "if" on the power of Christ, Christ puts an "if" on the…
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