52And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
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These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. …
But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
Commentary
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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