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John Gill's Exposition on Luke 13:33
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Nevertheless, I must walk, etc.] The Syriac version reads, “I must work”, and so the Arabic: as going about doing good, casting out devils, and healing diseases: today and tomorrow, and the day following: a few days more in Galilee, and towards Jerusalem: all the Oriental versions read, “the day following I shall depart”; either out of this world; or out of Galilee, and go to Jerusalem, and there suffer and die: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem; because the great sanhedrim only sat at Jerusalem, to whom it belonged to try and judge a prophet; and if found false, to condemn him, and put him to death; the rule is this f437; “they do not judge, neither a tribe, nor a false prophet, nor an high priest, but by the sanhedrim of seventy and one.” Not but that prophets sometimes perished elsewhere, as John the Baptist in Galilee; but not according to a judicial process, in which way Christ the prophet was to be cut off, nor was it common; instances of this kind were rare, and always in a violent way; and even such as were sentenced to death by the lesser sanhedrim, were brought to Jerusalem, and publicly executed there, whose crimes were of another sort; for so runs the canon f438 ; “they do not put any one to death by the sanhedrim, which is in his city, nor by the sanhedrim in Jabneh; but they bring him to the great, sanhedrim in Jerusalem, and keep him till the feast, and put him to death on a feast day, as it is said (<051713>Deuteronomy 17:13) “and all the people shall hear and fear.”” And since Jerusalem was the place where the prophets were usually put to death, it follows,
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