Luke 9:52

But he turned and rebuked them,.... He turned himself about to them, and looking upon them with a stern countenance, sharply reproved them for their intemperate zeal, their passion of wrath, and…

Sent messengers - In the original the word is “angels;” and the use of that word here shows that the word “angel” in the Bible does not always mean heavenly beings. To make ready - To prepare a place,…

Sent messengers - Αγγελους, angels, literally; but this proves that the word angel signifies a messenger of any kind, whether Divine or human. The messengers in this case were probably James and John.

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,…

sent messengers Some think that they were two of the Seventy disciples; others that they were James and John.

into a village of the Samaritans On the way to Judaea from Galilee He would doubtless…