Matthew 17:21
“Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting” is the reading of the great majority of Greek manuscripts, and of Codex Ephraemi, Codex Bezae, and Codex Washingtonianus of the fifth century. Origen quotes it in his commentary on Matthew about AD 246, and the Old Latin, the Vulgate, and the Peshitta have it. Tregelles printed it.
The King James Bible
Τοῦτο δὲ τὸ γένος οὐκ ἐκπορεύεται εἰ μὴ ἐν προσευχῇ καὶ νηστείᾳ.
Touto de to genos ouk ekporeuetai ei mē en proseuchē kai nēsteia
Greek Manuscripts
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Checked against: TAGNT (Robinson–Pierpont)
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Codex Washingtonianus W 032Checked against: CNTR transcription
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Checked against: CNTR transcription
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Codex Bezae D 05Checked against: CNTR transcription
Early Translations
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Old Latin itMost Old Latin manuscripts.Checked against: Scrivener 1894
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Matthew 17:20 in the Vulgate’s numbering: “Hoc autem genus non ejicitur nisi per orationem et jejunium.”Checked against: Clementine Vulgate (1592)
Church Fathers
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“But let us also attend to this, This kind goes not out save by prayer and fasting, in order that if at any time it is necessary that we should be engaged in the healing of one suffering from such a disorder, we may not adjure, nor put questions, nor speak to the impure spirit as if it heard, but devoting ourselves to prayer and fasting, may be successful.”
Checked against: ANF 9
Printed Greek Texts with This Reading
- Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)
- Majority Text · The Byzantine text, read by the great majority of Greek manuscripts (Robinson and Pierpont, 2005)
- Tregelles · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (1857–1879)
Quotations from the Ante-Nicene and Nicene Fathers translations. Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.
