Luke 9:51

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,

That

He stedfastly

General references

Matthew 26:46

Luke 17:11

John 4:4

Bible References

That

And while He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

The time had come for the Lord to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal,

Then after speaking to them, the Lord Jesus was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

“But now I am going away to Him who sent Me, and not one of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to You.

Holy Father,
protect them by Your name

that You have given Me,
so that they may be one as We are one.

until the day He was taken up, after He had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles He had chosen.

He demonstrated this power in the Messiah by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens—

For it says:

When He ascended

on high,

He took prisoners into captivity;

He gave gifts to people.

And most certainly, the mystery of godliness is great:

He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated in the Spirit,
seen by angels,
preached among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.

Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, because He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.

Now that He has gone into heaven, He is at God’s right hand with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

He stedfastly

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how it consumes Me until it is finished!

The Lord God has opened My ear,
and I was not rebellious;
I did not turn back.

“And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, bound in my spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there,

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’”

I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—

General references

Get up; let’s go! See, My betrayer is near.”

While traveling to Jerusalem, He passed between Samaria and Galilee.

He had to travel through Samaria,