Luke 9:51-56. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance.

51. when the time was come that he should be received up Rather, when the days of His Assumption were drawing to a close (literally, were being fulfilled).St Luke thus clearly marks the arrival of a final stage of our Lord's ministry. "His passion, cross, death, and grave were coming on, but through them all Jesus looked to the goal, and the style of the Evangelist imitates His feelings," Bengel. The word analysis means the Ascension (in Eccl. Latin Assumptio).So ἀνελήφθη of Elijah, 2 Kings 2:11; Mark 16:19.

he Rather, He Himself also.

set his face Jeremiah 21:10; 2 Kings 12:17 (LXX.), and especially Isaiah 1:7.

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