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What does Luke 9:56 mean?
"For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village."
— Luke 9:56 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.
When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”
But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.
For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.
As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
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