Luke 9:51-56

Modern English Version

A Samaritan Village Refuses to Receive Jesus

⁵¹ When the time came for Him to be received up, He was steadfastly set to go to Jerusalem, ⁵² and sent messengers ahead of Him. They went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make things ready for Him, ⁵³ but they did not receive Him, because He was set to go to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, even as Elijah did?” ⁵⁵ But He turned and rebuked them and said, “You do not know what kind of spirit you are of. ⁵⁶ For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village.