Berean Standard Bible
Luke 9:41
41“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”
Luke 9:41 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
- New International Version (NIV)“You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Jesus answered, "O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
Context of Luke 9:41
39A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from him. 40I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.” “O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.” 42Even while the boy was approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. 43And they were all astonished at the greatness of God. While everyone was marveling at all that Jesus was doing, He said to His disciples,
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Ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν, ὦ γενεὰ ἄπιστος καὶ διεστραμμένη, ἕως πότε ἔσομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς καὶ ἀνέξομαι ὑμῶν; προσάγαγε ὧδε τὸν υἱόν σου.Read the interlinear
- Oὦō · oh!G5599
- unbelievingἄπιστοςapistos · unbelievingG571
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- perverseδιαστρέφωdiastrephō · to pervertG1294
- generationγενεάgenea · generationG1074
- ·δέde · thenG1161
- ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
- repliedἀποκρίνωapokrinomai · to answerG611
- repliedεἶπονepō · to sayG2036
- How longἕωςheōs · untilG2193
- How longπότεpote · when?G4219
- must I remainεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
- withπρόςpros · to/withG4314
- youσύsu · youG4771
- put up withἀνέχωanechomai · to endureG430
- Bringπροσάγωprosagō · to bring nearG4317
- sonυἱόςuihos · sonG5207
- hereὧδεhōde · hereG5602
Cross-references for Luke 9:41
- Luke 8:25“Where is your faith?” He asked. Frightened and amazed, they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!”
- Mark 9:19“O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”
- John 20:27Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.”
- Hebrews 3:19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
- Hebrews 4:2For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.
- Deuteronomy 32:5His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
- Psalms 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
- Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- Matthew 12:39Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
- Matthew 16:4A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.
- Matthew 23:36Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
- Acts 2:40With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
- Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
- Exodus 16:28Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
- Numbers 14:11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
- Jeremiah 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
Commentaries on Luke 9:41
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 37-43Verses 37-43 See this passage explained in the Matthew 17:14-21 notes, and Mark 9:14-29 notes.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 37-42Verses 37-42 How deplorable the case of this child! He was under the power of an evil spirit. Disease of that nature are more frightful than such as arise merely from natural causes. What mischief Satan does where he gets possession! But happy those that have access to Christ! He can do that for us which his disciples cannot. A word from Christ healed the child; and when our children recover from sickness, it is comfortable to receive them as healed by…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 41O unbelieving and perverse generation!: It is unclear whether Jesus was speaking to the disciples or to the people as a whole.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Luke 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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