For the Son of man, etc. You should imitate, in your spirit, the Son of man. He did not come to destroy. If he had come for that …

For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives.—Here, again, we have to note the absence of the words from many of the better MSS. …

But he turned and rebuked them, and said, You know not what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives,…

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 strongly disapproved the suggestion of James and John by rebuking them (cf. 4:35, 41; 8:24). If the Samaritans were consciously rejecting Chr…

For the son of man;

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…