What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Told Us to “Take Up Our Cross”?
Greg Grandchamp
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Luke 9:51-56
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Samaritan Opposition
51 As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.
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And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him;
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but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem.
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When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them[a] ?”
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But Jesus turned and rebuked them.
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Then he and his disciples went to another village.
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- [a] Some manuscripts "them, just as Elijah did"
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