Luke 9:54-56

Complete Jewish Bible

⁵⁴When the talmidim Ya‘akov and Yochanan saw this, they said, “Sir, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to destroy them?”^[a] ⁵⁵But he turned and rebuked them.^[b] ⁵⁶And they went on to another village.

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Luke 9:54 2 Kings 1:9–16
Luke 9:55 Some manuscripts have verses 9:55b–56a: . . . and he said, “You don’t know what Spirit you are of; ⁵⁶for the Son of Man did not come to destroy people’s lives, but to save.”