Lucas 13:33

33 Sin embargo, debo seguir mi camino, hoy, mañana y pasado mañana; porque no puede ser que un profeta muera fuera de Jerusalén.

Lucas 13:33 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 13:33

Nevertheless, I must walk
The Syriac version reads, "I must work", and so the Arabic: as going about doing good, casting out devils, and healing diseases:

today and tomorrow, and the day following:
a few days more in Galilee, and towards Jerusalem: all the Oriental versions read, "the day following I shall depart"; either out of this world; or out of Galilee, and go to Jerusalem, and there suffer and die:

for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem;
because the great sanhedrim only sat at Jerusalem, to whom it belonged to try and judge a prophet; and if found false, to condemn him, and put him to death; the rule is this ^F5;

``they do not judge, neither a tribe, nor a false prophet, nor an high priest, but by the sanhedrim of seventy and one.''

Not but that prophets sometimes perished elsewhere, as John the Baptist in Galilee; but not according to a judicial process, in which way Christ the prophet was to be cut off, nor was it common; instances of this kind were rare, and always in a violent way; and even such as were sentenced to death by the lesser sanhedrim, were brought to Jerusalem, and publicly executed there, whose crimes were of another sort; for so runs the canon ^F6;

``they do not put any one to death by the sanhedrim, which is in his city, nor by the sanhedrim in Jabneh; but they bring him to the great, sanhedrim in Jerusalem, and keep him till the feast, and put him to death on a feast day, as it is said ( Deuteronomy 17:13 ) "and all the people shall hear and fear."''

And since Jerusalem was the place where the prophets were usually put to death, it follows,

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 1. sect. 5. & T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 18. 2.
F6 Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 10. sect. 4.

Lucas 13:33 In-Context

31 En ese momento llegaron unos fariseos diciéndole: Sal y vete de aquí, porque Herodes te quiere matar.

32 Y El les dijo: Id y decidle a ese zorro: "Yo expulso demonios, y hago curaciones hoy y mañana, y al tercer día cumplo mi propósito."

33 Sin embargo, debo seguir mi camino, hoy, mañana y pasado mañana; porque no puede ser que un profeta muera fuera de Jerusalén.

34 ¡Jerusalén, Jerusalén, la que mata a los profetas y apedrea a los que le son enviados! ¡Cuántas veces quise juntar a tus hijos, como la gallina a sus pollitos debajo de sus alas, y no quisiste!

35 He aquí, vuestra casa se os deja desierta; y os digo que no me veréis más, hasta que llegue el tiempo en que digáis: "BENDITO EL QUE VIENE EN NOMBRE DEL SEÑOR."