'Response' Tagged Posts
No Fire … Yet
Verses 51-56 of Luke 9 kind of set up the main point of the section. While both elements present stories, in a sense, it is the first story that makes sense of the second. In the first story, Jesus experiences rejection, and corrects the disciples’ desire to call down fire on the offenders. That’s the backdrop for the second story, where three would-be disciples respond to Jesus. The section begins with Jesus “setting his face” to go to Jerusalem. This…