Questions & Answers - Good News Staff - May 1974

Good News Staff

QUESTION: "You said that Jesus was a homeowner. But Jesus Himself said: 'Foxes have holes (homes), and birds of the air have nests (homes); but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head' (Luke 9:58). It is hard to imagine a homeowner who 'hath not where to lay his head.' Did Jesus mean something other than what He said?" ANSWER: By way of a brief background to this question, remember that Luke, the author of Acts and his own Gospel, wrote (as a historian naturally would) in chronological order (see Luke 1:1, 3). Checking the context of the passage in question, we read in Luke 9:51-56: "And it came to pass, when the time was come that he [Jesus] should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him [make arrangements for a place to stay]. And they [the residents of the village] did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library