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Luke 13:32
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30 aAnd indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.”  
31 1On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, “Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You.”  
32 And He said to them, “Go, tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day aI shall be perfected.’  
33 Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.

Jesus Laments over Jerusalem

34 a“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!  
35 See! aYour house is left to you desolate; and1 assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, b‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ” 
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Luke 13:32

That fox (th alwpeki tauth). This epithet for the cunning and cowardice of Herod shows clearly that Jesus understood the real attitude and character of the man who had put John the Baptist to death and evidently wanted to get Jesus into his power in spite of his superstitious fears that he might be John the Baptist redivivus. The message of Jesus means that he is independent of the plots and schemes of both Herod and the Pharisees. The preacher is often put in a tight place by politicians who are quite willing to see him shorn of all real power.

Cures (iaseiv). Old word, but in the N.T. only here and Acts 4:22, Acts 4:30.

I am perfected (teleioumai). Present passive indicative of teleiow, old verb from teleiov, to bring to perfection, frequent in the N.T. Used in Hebrews 2:10 of the Father's purpose in the humanity of Christ. Perfect humanity is a process and Jesus was passing through that, without sin, but not without temptation and suffering. It is the prophetic present with the sense of the future.




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Luke 13:33
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