Luke 9:55 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁵But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

Luke 9:55 —

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Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Job 2:10
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Matthew 16:23
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Job 31:29-31
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: …

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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. 55)

55-56. know not what ... spirit--The thing ye demand, though in keeping with the legal, is unsuited to the genius of the evangelical dispensation. The sparks of unholy indignation would seize readily enough on this example of Elias, though our Lord’s rebuke (as is plain from Lu 9:56) is directed to the principle involved rather than the animal heat which doubtless prompted the reference. “It is a…