Luke 9:53 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵³And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

Luke 9:53 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 4:9
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
John 4:40-42
So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. …
Luke 9:48
And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 53)

53. did not receive him, because, &c.--The Galileans, in going to the festivals at Jerusalem, usually took the Samaritan route [Josephus, Antiquities, 20.6.1], and yet seem to have met with no such inhospitality. But if they were asked to prepare quarters for the Messiah, in the person of one whose “face was as though He would go to Jerusalem,” their national prejudices would be raised at so marke…