![]() 50:7), not only not run down, but received up. He did not fail nor was discouraged, but set his face as a flint, knowing that he should be not only justified, but glorified ( Isa. ![]() He went cheerfully and courageously thither, though he knew the things that should befal him there. ![]() He was fully determined to go, and would not be dissuaded he went directly to Jerusalem, because there now his business lay, and he did not go about to other towns, or fetch a compass, which if he had done, as commonly he did, he might have avoided going through Samaria. On this prospect of the joy set before him, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem the place where he was to suffer and die. All good Christians may frame to themselves the same notion of death, and may call it their being received up, to be with Christ where he is and, when the time of their being received up is at hand, let them lift up their heads, knowing that their redemption draws nigh. Moses and Elias spoke of his death as his departure out of this world, which made it not formidable but he went further, and looked upon it as his translation to a better world, which made it very desirable. 3:16), received up into the highest heavens, to be enthroned there. When he saw his death and sufferings approaching, he looked through them and beyond them, to the glory that should follow he looked upon it as the time when he should be received up into glory ( 1 Tim. There was a time fixed for the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus, and he knew well enough when it was, and had a clear and certain foresight of it, and yet was so far from keeping out of the way that then he appeared most publicly of all, and was most busy, knowing that his time was short. Of this we have an instance, Luke 9:51: When the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. The readiness and resolution of our Lord Jesus, in prosecuting his great undertaking for our redemption and salvation. There, under colour of zeal for Christ, they were for silencing and restraining separatists: here, under the same colour, they were for putting infidels to death and, as for that, so for this also, Christ reprimanded them, for a spirit of bigotry and persecution is directly contrary to the spirit of Christ and Christianity. This passage of story we have not in any other of the evangelists, and it seems to come in here for the sake of its affinity with that next before, for in this also Christ rebuked his disciples, because they envied for his sake.
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