Of this we have an instance, : When the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. The readiness and resolution of our Lord Jesus, in prosecuting his great undertaking for our redemption and salvation. There, under colour of zeal for Christ, they were for silencing and restraining separatists: here, under the same colour, they were for putting infidels to death and, as for that, so for this also, Christ reprimanded them, for a spirit of bigotry and persecution is directly contrary to the spirit of Christ and Christianity. This passage of story we have not in any other of the evangelists, and it seems to come in here for the sake of its affinity with that next before, for in this also Christ rebuked his disciples, because they envied for his sake. 56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. ![]() ![]() ![]() 53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. 51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, 52 And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. Luk 9:56 | MHC | STEP | The Samaritans Refuse to Receive Christ Mistaken Zeal of James and John.
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