Lukas 13:33

33 Doch Ik moet heden, en morgen, en den volgenden dag reizen; want het gebeurt niet, dat een profeet gedood wordt buiten Jeruzalem.

Lukas 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.

Lukas 13:33 In-Context

31 Te dienzelfden dage kwamen er enige Farizeen, zeggende tot Hem: Ga weg, en vertrek van hier; want Herodes wil U doden.

32 En Hij zeide tot hen: Gaat heen, en zegt dien vos: Zie, Ik werp duivelen uit, en maak gezond, heden en morgen, en ten derden dage worde Ik voleindigd.

33 Doch Ik moet heden, en morgen, en den volgenden dag reizen; want het gebeurt niet, dat een profeet gedood wordt buiten Jeruzalem.

34 Jeruzalem, Jeruzalem! gij, die de profeten doodt, en stenigt, die tot u gezonden zijn, hoe menigmaal heb Ik uw kinderen willen bijeenvergaderen, gelijkerwijs een hen haar kiekens onder de vleugelen vergadert; en gijlieden hebt niet gewild?

35 Ziet, uw huis wordt ulieden woest gelaten. En voorwaar, Ik zeg u, dat gij Mij niet zult zien, totdat de tijd zal gekomen zijn, als gij zult zeggen: Gezegend is Hij, Die komt in den Naam des Heeren!