Luke 9:56 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 9

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62

⁵⁶For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

Luke 9:56 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Luke 9:55 Luke 9:57 →

Original word meaning

— of 16

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 12:21
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Topics

Evil for Evil Eye for Eye Jesus, the Christ Lex Talionis Punishment Retaliation Revenge Vengeance

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. 56)

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…