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It is instructive here to see what the disciples wanted. Vigorous, strenuous, effectual faith. Faith they possessed: they had left all, and followed the calling of the Messiah. But it was not such faith as they required: faith which can overcome all obstacles and temptations; faith which can wrestle with God in prayer and supplication; faith which can come boldly to the throne of grace; faith of which afterwards St. James understood the real value, when he wrote, "Let a man ask in faith, nothing wavering." Such faith, we are here warned, can only be produced and preserved in the heart by prayer and fasting: by persevering habits of earnest devotion, and by abstraction from worldly thoughts, desires, and pleasures.

John Bird Sumner — John Bird Sumner, D.D., Lord Bishop of Chester, A Practical Exposition of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, in the Form of Lectures, Intended to Assist the Practice of Domestic Instruction and Devotion, sixth edition (London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1838), Lecture XLIII, "Power of Faith.—Tribute Money Paid," on Matt. xvii. 14–27, p. 229

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John Bird Sumner, D.D., Lord Bishop of Chester, A Practical Exposition of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, in the Form of Lectures, Intended to Assist the Practice of Domestic Instruction and Devotion, sixth edition (London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1838), Lecture XLIII, "Power of Faith.—Tribute Money Paid," on Matt. xvii. 14–27, p. 229
John Bird Sumner, John Bird Sumner, D.D., Lord Bishop of Chester, A Practical Exposition of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, in the Form of Lectures, Intended to Assist the Practice of Domestic Instruction and Devotion, sixth edition (London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1838), Lecture XLIII, "Power of Faith.—Tribute Money Paid," on Matt. xvii. 14–27, p. 229 (archive.org) - John Bird Sumner, D.D., Lord Bishop of Chester, A Practical Exposition of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, in the Form of Lectures, Intended to Assist the Practice of Domestic Instruction and Devotion, sixth edition (London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1838), Lecture XLIII, "Power of Faith.—Tribute Money Paid," on Matt. xvii. 14–27, p. 229
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