Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionAnd 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?
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GAnd when His disciples Ya'akov and Yochanan saw this, they said, "Master, do You want us to call fire down from the sky to consume them?"
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageWhen His disciples James and John saw this, they asked, "Lord, do You want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"
BSB
Berean Standard BibleWhen the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”
Footnotes
The request explicitly echoes Eliyahu calling down fire on the soldiers of Ahaziah (2 Kings 1:10–12) — the same Eliyahu who had just appeared with Yeshua on the mountain. The irony is sharp: these men who witnessed the glory of the Servant-Messiah now invoke fire-prophet vengeance on Samaritans. Some manuscripts add "as Elijah did," making the allusion explicit, but this phrase appears to be a later scribal clarification absent from the earliest manuscripts.
