Unerringly, through the power of God’s Spirit, Luke produced the glorious account which lies before us in this section. God preserved this most valuable material, however, through the imprisonment of the apostle Paul for two whole years in Caesarea, during which time Luke the beloved physician had every favorable opportunity to interview hundreds of the persons who had seen and heard the things related. It was therefore quite natural that their respective Gospels should have detailed the teachings and wonders in which they have been present and eyewitnesses. It is extremely probable that Matthew, John and Peter (whose preaching was the real source of Mark) were absent from Jesus throughout a large part of this last six months. The Lord was in the habit of constantly sending out by themselves small companies of his disciples as missionaries in the neighboring districts, thus accustoming his followers, in view of his own approaching death, to act and to think alone.Ibid. There was an excellent reason why Matthew, John and Peter’s beloved Mark omitted practically all that is revealed in this section. It evidently was a careful visitation by Jesus of many villages not included on previous tours. 29, to March 30, the week before Passover began on April 7, 30 A.D. from the October feast of the tabernacles (John 7:2), A.D. This rather extended tour of Galilee filled up "the last six or seven months of our Lord’s earth life,"Ibid. See under Luke 17:11 for further comment on this. Only three times (here, in Luke 13:22, and Luke 17:11) is our Lord’s purpose of going to Jerusalem mentioned and the commentators who call this section "Journeyings to Jerusalem"H. It is also untrue that in these chapters, "Jesus is always on the way but is no closer to Jerusalem at the last than at the first."Ibid. With this paragraph, and continuing through the next ten chapters of this Gospel, Luke recorded a wealth of material, nearly all of which is found nowhere else but the allegation that here is "a great interpolation"Anthony Lee Ash, op. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them? But he turned and rebuked them and they went to another village. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he were going to Jerusalem. And it came to pass when the days were well-nigh come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before his face: and they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
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