Luke 9:51-56

International Children’s Bible

A Samaritan Town

⁵¹ The time was coming near when Jesus would leave and be taken to heaven. He was determined to go to Jerusalem ⁵² and sent some men ahead of him. The men went into a town in Samaria to make everything ready for Jesus. ⁵³ But the people there would not welcome him because he was going toward Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ James and John, the followers of Jesus, saw this. They said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven and destroy those people?”^[a]

⁵⁵ But Jesus turned and scolded them. [And Jesus said, “You don’t know what kind of spirit you belong to. ⁵⁶ The Son of Man did not come to destroy the souls of men but to save them.”]^[b] Then he and his followers went to another town.