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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Luke 9:54 - 9:54
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James and John - not Peter, as we should have expected, but those “sons of thunder” (Mar 3:17), who afterwards wanted to have all the highest honors of the Kingdom to themselves, and the younger of whom had been rebuked already for his exclusiveness (Luk 9:49, Luk 9:50). Yet this was “the disciple whom Jesus loved,” while the other willingly drank of His Lord’s bitter cup. (See on Mar 10:38-40; and see on Act 12:2). That same fiery zeal, in a mellowed and hallowed form, in the beloved disciple, we find in 1Jo 5:10; 3Jo 1:10.
fire ... as Elias - a plausible case, occurring also in Samaria (2Ki 1:10-12).