Luke 9:50-54

J.B. Phillips New Testament

⁵⁰ But Jesus told him, “You must not stop him. The man who is not against you is on your side.”

He sets off for Jerusalem to meet inevitable death

^51-54 Now as the days before he should be taken back into Heaven were running out, he resolved to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers in front of him. They set out and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him. But the people there refused to welcome him because he was obviously intending to go to Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Master, do you want us to call down fire from heaven and burn them all up?”