(12) 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?
(12) We must take heed of zeal and fond imitation which is not moderated, even in good causes, that whatever we do, we do it to God's glory, and the profit of our neighbour.
LUKE 9:54 auvtou,j {B} The reading w`j kai. VHli,aj evpoi,hsen, as well as the longer readings in verses Luke 9:55 and...
Verse 54. _THAT WE COMMAND FIRE_] Vengeance belongs to the Lord. What we suffer for _his sake_, should be left to himself to reprove or punish. The insult is offered to him, not to us. Mark 3:17, Mark...
JAMES AND JOHN - They were called Boanerges - sons of thunder - probably on account of their energy and power in preaching the gospel, or of their vehement and rash zeal - a remarkable example of whic...
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)...
LORD. App-98. WILT. App-102. COMMAND FIRE. should call down fire. HEAVEN. the heaven (Singular.) See note on Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10. EVEN AS ELIAS DID. as Elijah also did. See 2 Kings 1:1
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...
_James and John_ "What wonder that the Sons of Thunder wished to flash lightning?" St Ambrose. But one of these very disciples afterwards went to Samaria on a message of love (Acts 8:14-25). _fire to...
ὩΣ ΚΑῚ ἩΛΊΑΣ ἘΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ. ACD La[191] [W.[192]]. It is omitted in אBL Vulg[193], but very probably for dogmatic reasons. [191] La. Lachmann. [192] W.H Westcott and Hort. [193] Vulg. Vulgate. 54. ἸΆΚΩΒΟΣ...
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...
Luke 9:51-56. REJECTED BY THE SAMARITANS. A LESSON OF TOLERANCE...
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...
ΊΔΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.), см._ Luke 9:9. ΕΪΠΩΜΕΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. Совещательный _conj._, которому предшествует гл. желания (BD, 185). КАΤΑΒΉΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_...
AND WHEN HIS DISCIPLES, JAMES AND JOHN— That these disciples, so remarkablydistinguished by their Lord's favour, should havesome distinguished zeal and faith, may seem less wonderful, than that a pers...
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 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? AND WHEN HIS DISCIPLES JAMES AND JOHN...
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...
EVEN AS ELIAS (ELIJAH) DID] 2 Kings 1:10. Omitted by RV....
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....
WHEN HIS DISCIPLES JAMES AND JOHN SAW THIS. — The burning zeal of the sons of Zebedee, more fiery even than that of Peter, was eminently characteristic of those whom our Lord had named as the Sons of...
_Looking southward. Samaritan intolerance_....
_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...
Ἰάκωβος καὶ Ἰωάννης : their outburst of temper, revealed in their truculent proposal, probably indicated the attitude of the whole company. In that case journeying through Samaria was hopeless. καταβῆ...
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...
Wilt thou that we command fire, &c. In the Greek is added as Elias did. These words might be first in the margin, and thence by transcribers taken into the text. The two apostles, called the sons of t...
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...
_SONS OF THUNDER OR SONS OF CHRIST?_ ‘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?’...
54._And when His disciples James and John saw it_. The country itself had perhaps suggested to them the desire of thundering immediately against the ungodly; for it was there that _Elijah _had formerl...
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 WHEN HIS DISCIPLES, JAMES AND JOHN, SAW THIS,.... The Persic version reads thus; when "James and John, and the disciples saw this"; that is, the other disciples besides them, so making all the dis...
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? Ver. 54. _And when his disciples_] The...
_When his disciples, James and John_ Who attended him; _saw this_ When the messengers returned with the account of what had passed in the village, whither they had been sent, these two disciples, bein...
WHEN-JAMES AND JOHN SAW THIS; saw that the Samaritans would not entertain Christ. ELIAS; Elijah. 2 Kings 1:10-12....
Rejection by the Samaritans...
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?...
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...
The history of Elijah to which the disciples refer, is doubtless that, 2 KINGS 1:10, where Elijah, not without direction from God, called fire from heaven to destroy those captains and their fifties w...
Luke 9:54 And G1161 His G846 disciples G3101 James G2385 and G2532 John G2491 saw G1492 (G5631) said...
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...
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 when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, is it your will that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them?” At this rejection of Jesus and His message James and Jo...
Luke 9:54. SAW THIS. On the return of the messengers. Probably the company was now very near the village, and may have noticed some signs of opposition from the inhabitants. Comp. Acts 8:14-17, where...
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...
SAW THIS (ιδοντες). Second aorist active participle of οραω. Saw the messengers returning.WE BID (θελεις ειπωμεν). Deliberative subjunctive ειπωμεν after θελεις without ινα, probably two questions...
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...
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 9:54 Jesus rejects the suggestion of JAMES AND JOHN (TELL FIRE TO COME DOWN). His ministry at his first coming is not to bring judgment (see...
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 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_? They show themselves to be indeed Boane...
_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 1:10; 2 Kings 10:16; 2 Kings 10:31; 2 Samuel 21:2; Acts 4:29
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...
As Elisha did — At or near this very place, which might put it into the minds of the apostles to make the motion now, rather than at any other time or place, where Christ had received the like affront...
Here observe, 1. The crime which these men were guilty of: no affront must be accounted little, no indignity light, that is offered to the Son of God. But these Samaritans did not revile Christ, nor a...