Luke 9:54
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New International Version (©1984)
When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
When James and John saw this, they said to Jesus, "Lord, should we call down fire from heaven to burn them up?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
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?"

International Standard Version (©2008)
When his disciples James and John observed this rejection, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them, as Elijah did?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
James and John, his disciples, saw this. They asked, "Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to burn them up?"

King James Bible
And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

American King James Version
And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

American Standard Version
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?

Bible in Basic English
And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord, may we send fire from heaven and put an end to them?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when his disciples James and John had seen this, they said: Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them?

Darby Bible Translation
And his disciples James and John seeing it said, Lord, wilt thou that we speak that fire come down from heaven and consume them, as also Elias did?

English Revised Version
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?

Webster's Bible Translation
And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elijah did?

Weymouth New Testament
When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Master, do you wish us to order fire to come down from Heaven and consume them?"

World English Bible
When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"

Young's Literal Translation
And his disciples James and John having seen, said, 'Sir, wilt thou that we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?'

Geneva Study Bible

{12} And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

(12) We must take heed of zeal and fond imitation which is not moderated, even in good causes, that whatever we do, we do it to God's glory, and the profit of our neighbour.

People's New Testament

9:54 Wilt thou that we command fire? These gentle apostles were filled with wrath at the insult to the Master. Their zeal for the Lord led them into a sanguinary feeling that was sinful. Thus, often, religious zeal has led men to sinful acts and a persecuting spirit.

As Elijah did? See 2Ki 1:9-12.

Wesley's Notes

9:54 As Elisha did - At or near this very place, which might put it into the minds of the apostles to make the motion now, rather than at any other time or place, where Christ had received the like affront.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

54. James and John-not Peter, as we should have expected, but those "sons of thunder" (Mr 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 (Lu 9:49, 50). Yet this was "the disciple whom Jesus loved," while the other willingly drank of His Lord's bitter cup. (See on [1616]Mr 10:38-40; and [1617]Ac 12:2). That same fiery zeal, in a mellowed and hallowed form, in the beloved disciple, we find in 2Jo 5:10; 3Jo 10.

fire . as Elias-a plausible case, occurring also in Samaria (2Ki 1:10-12).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

9:51-56 The disciples did not consider that the conduct of the Samaritans was rather the effect of national prejudices and bigotry, than of enmity to the word and worship of God; and through they refused to receive Christ and his disciples, they did not ill use or injure them, so that the case was widely different from that of Ahaziah and Elijah. Nor were they aware that the gospel dispensation was to be marked by miracles of mercy. But above all, they were ignorant of the prevailing motives of their own hearts, which were pride and carnal ambition. Of this our Lord warned them. It is easy for us to say, Come, see our zeal for the Lord! and to think we are very faithful in his cause, when we are seeking our own objects, and even doing harm instead of good to others.


2 Kings 1:9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he said to him, "O man of God, the king says, 'Come down.'"
Mark 3:17 and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, "Sons of Thunder "); (NASB ©1995)

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And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

wilt. 2Sa 21:2 2Ki 10:16,31 Jas 1:19,20 3:14-18

fire. 2Ki 1:10-14 Ac 4:29,30 Re 13:3

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