Luke 9:49

And John answering said, “Master, we saw a certain one casting forth the demons in Your Name, and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us”;

Literal Standard Version

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 may receive this child in My Name, receives Me, and whoever may receive Me, receives Him who sent Me, for he who is least among you all—he will be great.”

50and Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid, for he who is not against us, is for us.”

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Cross References

Numbers 11:27and the young man runs, and declares [it] to Moses, and says, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

Mark 10:13And they were bringing to Him children that He might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them,

Acts 4:18And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the Name of Jesus,

1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, so as to always fill up their sins, but [God’s] anger came on them—to the end!

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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