Luke 9:54 - English Majority Text Version 2009

And when they saw this, James and John His disciples said, "Lord, do You wish [that] we should call down fire from heaven and consume them, as Elijah did?"

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And when His disciples James and John observed this, they said, Lord, do You wish us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, even as Elijah did ? [II Kings 1:9-16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them?

Common English Bible

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to consume them?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when his disciples, James and John, had seen this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to call for fire to descend from heaven and consume them?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when his disciples James and John had seen this, they said: Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them?

Luke 9:54 Cross References

Mark 3:17

James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, He gave them the names Boanerges, which is, "Sons of Thunder";

Luke 9:55

But turning, He rebuked them, and said, "You do not know of what sort of spirit you are.

Revelation 13:13

And he works great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth before men.

Revelation 13:3

And one of his heads [was ]as if it had been slain to death, and his wound of death was healed. And the whole world marveled after the Beast.