Luke 17:6 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 17:6

And the Lord answered, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.

BSB

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ASV

And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye would say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea; and it would obey you.

KJV

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 thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

As a grain of mustard seed - A faith that increases and thrives as that is described to do, Mat 13:32 (note), where see the note. See also Mat 17:20. This sycamine - The words seem to intimate that they were standing by such a tree. The sycamine is probably the same as the sycamore. Sycamore with us, says Mr. Evelyn, is falsely so called, being our acer majus, greater maple. The true sycamore is the ficus Pharaonis or Aegyptia, Pharaoh’s, or Egyptian fig-tree; called also, from its similitude in leaves and fruit, morosyous, or mulberry fig-tree.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

And he said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed - If ye had the least measure of true faith, no instance of duty would be too hard for you. Ye would say to this sycamine tree - This seems to have been a kind of proverbial expression.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

As with God nothing is impossible, so are all things possible to him that can believe. That, whatever we do in the service of Christ, we must be very humble, and not imagine that we can merit any favour at his hand, or claim it as a debt; even the apostles themselves, who did so much more for Christ than others, must not think that they had thereby made him their debtor.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

We do not know the secret feelings from which this request sprang. Perhaps the hearts of the apostles failed within them, as they heard one weighty lesson after another fall from our Lord's lips. Perhaps the thought rose up in their minds, "Who is sufficient for these things? Who can receive such exalted doctrines? Who can follow such a lofty standard of practice?" These, however, are only conjectures. One thing, at any rate, is clear and plain. The request which they made was most deeply important, "Increase our faith!" Faith is the root of all saving religion .

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἶπεν	eipen	Said	G2036 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
κύριος·	kurios	Lord;	G2962 →
εἰ	ei	If	G1487 →
ἔχετε	echete	you have	G2192 →
πίστιν	pistin	faith	G4102 →
ὡς	hōs	like	G5613 →
κόκκον	kokkon	a grain	G2848 →
σινάπεως,	sinapeōs	of mustard,	G4615 →
ἐλέγετε	elegete	you have spoken	G3004 →
ἂν	an	then would	G302 →
τῇ	tēa	to the	G3588 →
συκαμίνῳ	sukaminō	mulberry tree	G4807 →
ταύτῃ·	tautē	this;	G3778 →
ἐκριζώθητι	ekrizōthēti	do be uprooted	G1610 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
φυτεύθητι	phuteuthēti	do be planted	G5452 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
θαλάσσῃ,	thalassē	sea,	G2281 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὑπήκουσεν	hupēkousen	it have obeyed	G5219 →
ἂν	an	would	G302 →
ὑμῖν.¶	humin	you.	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Mark 9:23
“If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”
leads to
- Matthew 17:20
  “Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- John 11:40
  Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
- Hebrews 11:6
  And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
- Matthew 21:21–22
  “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain,…
Through
Matthew 17:20
“Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’…
leads to
- Mark 11:23
  “Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 21:21
  “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain,…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 1:37
  For no word from God will ever fail.”
- Luke 18:27
  But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke