Sent messengers (απεστειλεν αγγελους). As a precaution since he was going to Jerusalem through Samaria. The Samaritans did not obj…

Sent messengers. In the original, the word is angels; and the use of that word here shows that the word angel in the Bib…

And sent me engers before his face.—It is remarkable that the words “Samaria” and “Samaritan” do not occur at all in Saint Mark, a…

And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not recei…

St. Cyril of Alexandria: When the time was near for our Lord to accomplish his life-giving Passion and ascend to heaven, he de…

Jesus “sent messengers on ahead” (cf. 10:1–16), who were not told to preach but simply to “get things ready for him.” 53–54 The residents of the Sa…

And he sent messengers. It is probable that our Lord was, at that time, attended by a great multitude of followers, for the messengers…

And sent me engers before his face
Who very likely were his two disciples, James and John, since they so highly rese…

The disciples did not consider that the conduct of the Samaritans was rather the effect of national prejudices and bigotry than of enmity to the wo…