Luke 9:54
Good News Translation
When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

New Revised Standard Version
When his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

Contemporary English Version
When the disciples James and John saw what was happening, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to destroy these people?"

New American Bible
When the disciples James and John saw this they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume 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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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?

wilt.

2 Samuel 21:2 Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the Amorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel and Juda:)

2 Kings 10:16,31 And said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So he made him ride in his chariot, . . .

James 1:19,20 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger. . . .

James 3:14-18 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. . . .

fire.

2 Kings 1:10-14 And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty that were with him. . . .

Acts 4:29,30 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants that with all confidence they may speak thy word, . . .

Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death's wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast.

Context
The Samaritans Reject Jesus
53And they received him not, because his face was of one going to Jerusalem. 54And 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? 55And turning, he rebuked them, saying: you know not of what spirit you are.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:9
And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the king: Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? I will go, and cut off his head.

2 Kings 1:9
And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a hill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come down.

2 Kings 1:10
And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty that were with him.

Mark 3:17
And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he named them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder.

Luke 9:55
And turning, he rebuked them, saying: you know not of what spirit you are.

Revelation 13:13
And he did great signs, so that he made also fire to come down from heaven unto the earth, in the sight of men.

Luke 9:53
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