Luke 9:55 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Luke 9:55

53 But ^athey did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem.

54 And when His disciples ^aJames and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them,¹ just as ^bElijah did?”

55 But He turned and rebuked them,¹ and said, “You do not know what manner of ^aspirit you are of.

56 For ^athe Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village.

The Cost of Discipleship

57 ^aNow it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.”

58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man ^ahas nowhere to lay His head.”

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know not what . . . spirit—The thing ye demand, though in keeping with the legal, is unsuited to the genius of the evangelical dispensation. The sparks of unholy indignation would seize readily enough on this example of Elias, though our Lord's rebuke (as is plain from Luke 9:56) is directed to the principle involved rather than the animal heat which doubtless prompted the reference. "It is a golden sentence of Tillotson, Let us never do anything for religion which is contrary to religion" [WEBSTER and WILKINSON].

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