Discovery BoxMatthew 15:32 
ContextThe Feeding of the Four Thousand
15:32 Then Jesus called the 1 disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.”
Matthew 17:20
Context17:20 He told them, “It was because of your little faith. I tell you the truth, 2 if you have faith the size of 3 a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; nothing 4 will be impossible for you.”
1 tc ‡ Although the external evidence is not great (א W Θ 700 pc), the internal evidence for the omission of αὐτοῦ (autou, “his”) after “disciples” is fairly strong. The pronoun may have been added by way of clarification. NA27, however, includes the pronoun, on the basis of the much stronger external evidence.
2 tn Grk “For truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.” Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.
3 tn Grk “faith as,” “faith like.”
4 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
