Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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 9:49-50). Yet this was "the disciple whom Jesus loved," while the other willingly drank of His Lord's bitter cup. (See on Mark 10:38-40; and Acts 12:2). That same fiery zeal, in a mellowed and hallowed form, in the beloved disciple, we find in 1 John 5:10; 3 John 1:10.
fire . . . as Elias--a plausible case, occurring also in Samaria (2 Kings 1:10-12).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Job 31:31
Matthew 13:28
Luke 9:51
2 Corinthians 10:4
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