Luke 9:49

Now John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.

In Context

48and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me. For he who is least among you all shall be great.”

50But Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.” 1 A Samaritan Village Rejects the Savior

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Cross References

Mark 10:13And they were bringing to Him little children, that He might touch them; but the disciples were rebuking those who brought them.

Acts 4:18And summoning them, they commanded them not to speak at all nor to teach in the name of Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God has come upon them to the uttermost. 1 Paul's Longing to See Them Again

Matthew Henry on Luke 9:44-51

Ambition of the Disciples Reproved. 43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples, 44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. 45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying. 46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest. 47 And… Read the whole commentary →

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