54. James and John —not Peter, as we should have expected, but those " sons of thunder " ( Mark 3:17 ), who afterwards wanted to have all the highest honors of the Kingdom to themselves, and the younger of whom had been rebuked already for his exclusiveness ( Luke 9:49 ; Luke 9:50 ). Yet this was "the disciple whom Jesus loved," while the other willingly drank of His Lord's bitter cup. (See on Luke 9:50- : ; and Luke 9:50- : ). That same fiery zeal, in a mellowed and hallowed form, in the beloved disciple, we find in 2 John 5:10 ; 3 John 1:10 . fire . . . as Elias —a plausible case, occurring also in Samaria ( 3 John 1:10- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-55" class="com-number"
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