Luke 9:54 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵⁴ And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁴ 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

⁵⁴ 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)

⁵⁴ 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

⁵⁴ 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

⁵⁴ 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

⁵⁴ 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

2 Samuel 16:9

Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.”

2 Samuel 21:2

So the king called the Gibeonites. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.

2 Kings 1:9

Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’ ”

2 Kings 10:16

And he said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord.” So he had him ride in his chariot.

2 Kings 10:31

But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Mark 3:17

James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, whom he surnamed Bo-anerges, that is, sons of thunder;

Luke 9:55

But he turned and rebuked them.

Revelation 13:13

It works great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men;

Revelation 13:3

One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed the beast with wonder.