And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
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Gill's Exposition
For the son of man,.... Meaning himself, in his state of humiliation:
is not come to destroy men's lives; the word "men's" is omitted in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Persic versions: and both…
Barnes' Notes
They did not receive him - Did not entertain him hospitably, or receive him with kindness. Because his face was ... - Because they ascertained that he was going to Jerusalem. One of the subjects of…
Adam Clarke
His face was - They saw he was going up to Jerusalem to keep the feast; (it was the feast of tabernacles, Joh 7:2); and knowing him thereby to be a Jew, they would afford nothing for his…
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
they did not receive him The aorist implies that they at once rejected Him. The Samaritans had shewn themselves heretofore not ill-disposed (Joh 4:39), and St Luke himself delights to record…