51And 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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The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. …
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 51-56)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, because they envied for his sake. There, under colour of zeal for Christ, they were for silencing and restraining separatists: here, under the same colour, they were for putting infidels to death; and, as…
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