Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 9:51

51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.

From this to v. 57. we have a piece of History recorded by no other Evangelist, but Luke, but is of great use to us, both to let us know, that our Saviour laid down his Life, no Man took it from him, and to let us see to what heigth differences about Religion ordinarily arise, and what intemperateness is often found, as to them, in the Spirits of the best of People, as also what the Will of our Grand-masters, as to the Government of our Spirits on such Cases. The going up of our Saviour to Ierusalem at this time, was his last Journey thither. When the time was come that he should be taken up, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. That is, when the time was drawing nigh, when Christ should Ascend up into Heaven, so the Word is used, Mar. 16.19. Acts 1.11. 1 Tim. 3.16. But why doth the Evangelist express it thus; why doth he not say, when he was to suffer, but Skippeth over his Death, and only mentioneth his Ascension. 1. That is included, Christ was first to suffer, and than to enter into his Glory. 2. Christ's Death is called a lifting up from the Earth, Iohn 12.32. 3. What if we should say that Christ's Death is thus exprest, to let us know that the Death of Christ was to him, a thing that his Eye was not so much upon, as the Glory which he immediately was to enter into after; so as he calls his very Death a taking up, as that which immediately preceded, it thereby teaching us to overlook Sufferings and Death, as not worthy to be named or mentioned, and to look only to that taking up into our Fathers Glory, which is the Portion of all Believers, when they dye, they are but taken up from the Earth, and tho our Bodies still stay behind a while, Death having a Power over us, yet of them also there shall be a taking up. Upon both which takings up, our Eyes should be so fixed, as to overlook all the Sufferings of this Life, as not worthy to be named. He stedfastly set his Face to go to Jerusalem. Some think this was not our Saviours last motion thither before his passion, but then it would not have been said [non-Latin text not transcribed] he set his Face, or he Confirmed his Face. He was now in Galilee, Ierusalem (that killed the Prophets) was the place designed for his Suffering betwixt Galilee and Ierusalem lay Samaria, through which he was to pass.

Marginal references: Mark 16.19. Act [illegible: 1 letter].2.