“And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?”
When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them? — the sons of thunder (Boanerges) live up to their nickname: the fire from heaven request invokes the Elijah precedent (2 Kings 1:10–12). The disciples' response to rejection is retaliatory destruction — exactly the opposite of Jesus' response.
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