Edit · disputed
What the source reads — (the earliest Greek has no such verse)
What this version reads — Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Present in the Byzantine text and the KJV, absent from the earliest Greek — likely harmonized in from the parallel at Mark 9:29. Scholars divide on whether it was added or lost.
Read this chapter side by side — Matthew 17:21 →