Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 9:56

"And they went to another village." — Luke 9:56 (ASV)

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. It is, perhaps, open to conjecture that they were inserted from an oral tradition that had preserved what the Evangelist in his written record had omitted.