LUKE—NOTE ON Luke 13:33 I must go. Jesus was committed to finishing his mission. that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem. Jesus did not mean that no prophet had ever died outside of Jerusalem (see 2 Chronicles 24:20; Jeremiah 26:20). Rather, he was using irony. Jerusalem, the center of Jewish religion and worship, was more dangerous to a true prophet of God than any threats from Herod in Galilee.

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