Luke 9:51. When the days were being fulfilled . When the time was near, when the days of the final period were come, not when the time itself had come.

That he should be received up, i.e., into heaven. The clause cannot mean that the days of His favorable reception in Galilee were at an end. The apparent difficulty, that His Ascension did not take place until months afterwards, is met at once by considering that the Evangelist does not imply an immediate ascension, but rather regards the history from this point as a journey to death and subsequent glorification.

He steadfastly set his face. He not only had but showed the fixed purpose, to go to Jerusalem . He saw what was before Him there, and went to meet it.

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Old Testament