When he had said these words unto them, he remained still in Galilee.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
When he had said these words, &c. Christ appears not to have taken the straight road through Samaria, but to have crossed the Jordan, and after dismissing the multitudes, to have gone up to Jerusalem with a few of His favoured disciples, in secret (see Matthew 19:1-2; Luke 9:51-53; Mark 9:29, Mark 10:1).