Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Luke 9:52
and sent messengers before His face; and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for Him.
and sent messengers before His face; and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for Him.
Verse 52. _SENT MESSENGERS_] αγγελους, _angels_, literally; but this proves that the word _angel_ signifies a messenger of any kind, whether Divine or human. The messengers in this case were probably...
SENT MESSENGERS - In the original the word is “angels;” and the use of that word here shows that the word “angel” in the Bible does not always mean heavenly beings. TO MAKE READY - To prepare a place,...
IV. THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM -- CHAPTER 9:51-19:27 CHAPTER 9:51-62 _ 1. His Face Set Toward Jerusalem. (Luke 9:51)_ 2. The Rejected Messengers and His Rebuke. (Luke 9:53) 3. Tests of Discipleship....
INHOSPITABLE SAMARITANS. The journey was begun by the direct road through Samaria (for Lk.'s interest in Samaritans _cf. Luke 10:33_, Luke 17:16; contrast Matthew 10:5), though Jesus appears (Mk., Mt....
John said to Jesus, "Master, we saw a man casting out demons in your name; and we stopped him because he does not follow with us." Jesus said to him, "Don't try to stop him, for he who is not against...
EMISSARIES OF THE KING (Luke 9:1-9)...
BEFORE. Greek. _pro._ App-104. Samaritans. Compare 2 Kings 17:26. READY. to prepare [reception]....
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
_sent messengers_ Some think that they were two of the Seventy disciples; others that they were James and John. _into a village of the Samaritans_ On the way to Judaea from Galilee He would doubtless...
Luke 9:51-56. REJECTED BY THE SAMARITANS. A LESSON OF TOLERANCE...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
ἈΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΕΝ�. Some think that they were two of the Seventy disciples; others that they were James and John. ΕἸΣ ΚΏΜΗΝ ΣΑΜΑΡΙΤΩ͂Ν. On the way to Judaea from Galilee He would doubtless avoid Nazareth, an...
Ver 51. And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, 52. And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered i...
_PUT YOUR HAND TO THE PLOUGH AND DO NOT LOOK BACK -- LUKE 9:37-62:_ Our faith in the Christ will grow if we have faith in His power. His power was seen as He healed a severely demon possessed boy and...
ΆΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 9:2. ΠΟΡΕΥΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part. (сопутств.)_, _см._ Luke 9:12. ΕΊΣΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 9:4. ΈΤΟΙΜΆΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΈΤΟΙΜΆΖΩ ...
AND SENT MESSENGERS— Our Lord did not now travel privately to Jerusalem, as he had often done before; but, declaring his intention publicly, entered on the journey with the most perfect fortitude.The...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 6 Taming Temperaments (Luke 9:46-62) 46 And an argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest. 47But when Jesus perceived the thought of their hearts, he to...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Inhospitable Samaritans Scripture_ Luke 9:51-55 And it came to pass, when the days were well-nigh come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jer...
And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. AND SENT MESSENGERS BEFORE HIS FACE: AND THEY WENT, AND ENTERED INTO A VILL...
45 The Lord was not misled by the amazement of the multitude. He knew their fickleness and unbelief. But He was concerned more particularly that His disciples should not be deceived by the great impre...
FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND. PETER'S CONFESSION. THE TRANSFIGURATION 1-6. Mission of the Twelve (Matthew 10:1; Matthew 10:5; Mark 6:7). See on Mt....
JAMES AND JOHN DESIRE TO CALL DOWN FIRE UPON A SAMARITAN VILLAGE (peculiar to Lk). Though James and John did not gain their title 'Boanerges' (Mark 3:17) from this incident, yet it undoubtedly illustr...
SAMARITANS] see on John 4:4; John 4:8; John 4:20. TO MAKE READY] viz. a lodging and a meal....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 9 JESUS SENDS OUT THE 12 *APOSTLES 9:1-10 V1 Jesus called the 12 *apostles together. He gave them power and authority over all *demons and diseases....
AND SENT MESSENGERS BEFORE HIS FACE. — It is remarkable that the words “Samaria” and “Samaritan” do not occur at all in St. Mark, and in St. Matthew in one passage only (Matthew 10:5), and then in the...
_Samaritan intolerance_. εἰς κώμην Σαμαρειτῶν : this indicates an intention to go southward through Samaritan territory. Not an unusual thing. Josephus (Antiq., xx., vi. 1) states that it was the cust...
_Looking southward. Samaritan intolerance_....
THE STEADFAST FACE Luke 9:51-62 The Master's steadfast face rebukes us! Alas, we so often flinch and cannot appropriate Isaiah 50:7. But whether we follow afar off or closely, that lithe, alert, eag...
As He sent His apostles out, He gave them power and authority. They went forth without any provision for the journey other than the things of spiritual equipment. Rumors of the ministry and power they...
Messengers, &c. St. Jerome believes that Christ sent true angels before him to announce his coming. The Greek word aggelos, generally signifies an angel; but it likewise means a messenger. Most interp...
RETALIATORY SPIRIT OF JAMES & JOHN Luke 9:51-56. “And it came to pass, while the days of His taking up [i.e., His crucifixion] were being fulfilled, and He turned His face to go to Jerusalem. And He s...
_The Refusal._ This tentative message of Jesus does not prove, as Meyer and Bleek think, that He had the intention of penetrating farther into Samaria, and of going directly to Jerusalem in that way....
(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...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
52._And he sent messengers. _It is probable that our Lord was, at that time, attended by a great multitude of followers; for the _messengers _were not _sent _to prepare a splendid banquet, or to selec...
In chapter 9 the Lord charges the disciples with the same mission in Israel as that which He Himself fulfilled. They preach the kingdom, heal the sick, and cast out devils. But this is added, that the...
AND SENT MESSENGERS BEFORE HIS FACE,.... Who very likely were his two disciples, James and John, since they so highly resented the ill treatment their master met with from the Samaritans: AND THEY WE...
_When the time was come_, &c. Εν τω συμπληρουσθαι, _when the time was fulfilled_ That is, according to the Hebrew idiom, _drew on, that he should be received up_ The Greek word αναληψις, in this passa...
SENT MESSENGERS; in the original it is angels, which shows the manner in which this word ANGELS is sometimes used in the Bible, meaning persons who are sent. MAKE READY; provide lodging and refreshme...
THE LORD JESUS SUFFICIENT FOR HUMAN MISERY AND NEED (vs.1-17) The Lord had shown Himself as the perfect remedy for the world's disturbance, its bondage to Satan, its disease occasioned by sin and its...
51-56 The disciples did not consider that the conduct of the Samaritans was rather the effect of national prejudices and bigotry, than of enmity to the word and worship of God; and through they refus...
Ver. 52,53. The land of Canaan was by Joshua divided among all the twelve tribes of Israel, as we read in the book of Joshua, JOSHUA 14:1 15:1-63 16:1-10 17:1-18 Saul, David, and Solomon (after the de...
Luke 9:52 and G2532 sent G649 (G5656) messengers G32 before G4253 His G846 face G4383 And G2532 went...
JESUS IS WARNED OFF BY THE SAMARITANS BECAUSE HE IS HEADED FOR JERUSALEM (9:52-56). The Samaritans lived between Galilee and Judaea in Samaria, in and around Shechem, and had grown into quite a large...
‘And he sent messengers before his face, and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for him, and they did not receive him, because his face was as though he were going to...
JESUS SETS HIS FACE TOWARDS JERUSALEM FOLLOWED BY CENTRING ON THE LORD'S PRAYER FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF THE WORLD (9:51-11:54). This section commences with Jesus setting His face towards Jerusalem b...
Luke 9:52. MESSENGERS. Supposed, but without reason, to have been the two sons of Zebedee. SAMARITANS. The direct route towards Jerusalem from Galilee lay through Samaria. See on Matthew 10:5; and J...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
SENT MESSENGERS (απεστειλεν αγγελους). As a precaution since he was going to Jerusalem through Samaria. The Samaritans did not object when people went north from Jerusalem through their country. He...
Luke 9:51. _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,_ It is a very remarkable expression that is here used: «when the...
Our Lord had been on the mountain, and had been transfigured; and when he came down, the first person that he met was the devil, with whom he had to come in contact. Whenever you or I get up on the mo...
CONTENTS: The twelve sent forth to preach and their return. 5000 fed. Peter's confession of Christ. The transfiguration. The powerless disciples and the demon ridden boy. Jesus' rebuke of sectarianism...
Luke 9:1. _He called his twelve disciples together,_ privately, it would seem, and gave them power and authority to preach, and to heal diseases. Those powers must go together as was foretold in Isaia...
AS THE DAYS DREW NEAR. The time when he must suffer and die. SET OUT ON HIS WAY TO JERUSALEM. He knew what he must face there, but he has made up his mind, and will do as God wants him to do. It is im...
_He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem--_ CHRIST HASTENING TO THE CROSS I. THE PERFECT CLEARNESS WITH WHICH ALL THROUGH CHRIST’S LIFE HE SAW THE INEVITABLE END. II. OUR LORD’S PERFECT WILL...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 9:52 A VILLAGE OF THE SAMARITANS. For Jewish-Samaritan relations, see note on John 4:4. TO MAKE PREPARATIONS. To arrange housing....
JESUS HEALS PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW AND MANY OTHERS MATTHEW 8:14-17; MARK 1:29-34; LUKE 4:38-41; MATTHEW 8:14 And when Jesus was come int
CHAPTER 9 Ver. 8. _One of the old prophets was risen again._ As Enoch and Elias will rise again before the end of all things, to resist Antichrist. In like manner as Peter, Bishop and Martyr, the son...
_And sent messengers before His face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for Him_, to prepare food and lodging for Him and His companions, the twelve Apostles a...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 9:51. WHEN THE TIME WAS COME.—Rather, “when the days were well-nigh come” (R.V.). THAT HE SHOULD BE RECEIVED UP.—The word translated “received up” means His assumption or ascensi...
EXPOSITION LUKE 9:1 _The Master sends out the twelve on a mission_. LUKE 9:1 THEN HE CALLED HIS TWELVE DISCIPLES TOGETHER. The Galilee ministry was just over; _outwardly_ it had been a triumphant...
Let's turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to Luke, chapter 9. Luke here records the sending of the twelve to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. This is not to be confused with the...
2 Kings 17:24; Ezra 4:1; John 8:48; Luke 10:1; Luke 10:33;...
WHAT KIND OF A CHRISTIAN AM I? Luke 9:32 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In the ninth chapter of Luke, we have at least nine marks of carnality displayed by the disciples. We will introduce the study by noting...
He sent messengers to make ready — A lodging and needful entertainment for him and those with him....
Did the Samaritans receive Christ or reject Him? PROBLEM: Luke says clearly that “they did not receive Him.” Yet, when Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well, a great multitude flocked to mee...
Our Saviour was now going from Galilee to Jerusalem, and being to pass through. village of Samaria, he sent messengers before him to prepare entertainment for him. The Son of God, who was heir of all...