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,
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
Should be received up - The word here translated “received up” means literally a removal from a lower to a higher place, and here it refers evidently to the solemn ascension of Jesus to heaven. It is…
Adam Clarke
That he should be received up - Bishop Pearce says: "I think the word αναληψεως must signify, of Jesus's retiring or withdrawing himself, and not of his being received up: because the word…
This passage of story we have not in any other of the evangelists, and it seems to come in here for the sake of its affinity with that next before, for in this also Christ rebuked his disciples,…
Cambridge Bible
Luk 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,…
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