Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 9:53
His face was as though he would go to Jerusalem — It plainly appeared, he was going to worship at the temple, and thereby, in effect, to condemn the Samaritan worship at Mount Gerizim.
His face was as though he would go to Jerusalem — It plainly appeared, he was going to worship at the temple, and thereby, in effect, to condemn the Samaritan worship at Mount Gerizim.
Verse 53. _HIS FACE WAS_] They saw he was going up to Jerusalem to keep the feast; (it was the feast of tabernacles, John 7:2); and knowing him thereby to be a _Jew_, they would afford nothing for hi...
THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM - Did not entertain him hospitably, or receive him with kindness. BECAUSE HIS FACE WAS ... - Because they ascertained that he was going to Jerusalem. One of the subjects of di...
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)...
WOULD GO. was going....
_they did not receive him_ The aorist implies that they at once rejected Him. The Samaritans had shewn themselves heretofore not ill-disposed (John 4:39), and St Luke himself delights to record favour...
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...
ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΔΈΞΑΝΤΟ ΑΥ̓ΤΌΝ. The aorist implies that they at once rejected Him. The Samaritans had shewn themselves heretofore not ill-disposed (John 4:39), and St Luke himself delights to record favourable...
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...
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...
ΈΔΈΞΑΝΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Luke 9:5. ΠΡΌΣΩΠΟΝ (G4383) лицо. Семитское выражение, означает "человек" или "он" (SB, 2:165; Marshall), ΠΟΡΕΥΌΜΕΝΟΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part., см._ Luke 9:12....
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...
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...
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...
And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. AND THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM, BECAUSE HIS FACE WAS AS THOUGH HE WOULD GO TO JERUSALEM. The Galileans, in going...
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...
AS THOUGH HE WOULD GO TO JERUSALEM] The Samaritans expected a Messiah, but the fact that Jesus was going to Jerusalem to worship, rather than to their own holy mountain Gerizim, was a sufficient proof...
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....
THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM. — The reason thus given exactly agrees with what has been stated above. It will be remembered that when He had visited Samaria before, it was on His return, not directly from...
_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...
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...
53._He steadfastly set his face. _By this expression Luke has informed us that Christ, when he had death before his eyes, rose above the fear of it, and went forward to meet it; but, at the same time,...
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 THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM,.... The Ethiopic version reads "them", the messengers; but it should rather seem that they did receive the messengers, and promised them lodging and entertainment; being...
And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. 53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to...
_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...
HIS FACE WAS; they saw that his purpose was to go to Jerusalem, and as they were great enemies to the Jews, to whom he was going, they would not entertain him....
AND THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM BECAUSE HIS FACE WAS AS THOUGH HE WOULD GO TO JERUSALEM....
Rejection by the Samaritans...
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...
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Luke 9:53 But G2532 did G1209 not G3756 receive G1209 (G5662) Him G846 because G3754 His G846 face...
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 9:53. AND THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM. Refused to grant the needed accommodations. This was doubtless done through the messengers. Of course they thus rejected Him as the Messiah. AS THOUGH HE WERE...
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...
AND THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM (κα ουκ εδεξαντο αυτον). Adversative use of κα = But.BECAUSE HIS FACE WAS GOING TO JERUSALEM (οτ το προσωπον αυτου ην πορευομενον εις Ιερουσαλημ). Periphrastic imperf...
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...
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...
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...
WOULD NOT RECEIVE HIM. The reason given for this is that it was plain he was going to Jerusalem. Perhaps if he had planned to stay there and teach and heal, they would have received him. LORD, DO YOU...
_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 9:53 DID NOT RECEIVE HIM, BECAUSE HIS FACE WAS SET TOWARD JERUSALEM (compare v. Luke 9:51). The Samaritans probably rejected the messengers because Samaritans did not a
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 they_ (the Samaritans) _did not receive Him, because His face was as though He would go to Jerusalem._ Because He appeared to be going up to Jerusalem (Syriac), for it was plain, from the bearing...
_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...
John 4:40; John 4:9; Luke 9:48...
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...
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...