Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Luke 13:32 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 32. 32And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 13:32 answers Herod's threat with continued release and healing rather than fear or retaliation.
Some Pharisees warn him, and he still walks toward the city he loves
This verse is one part of that explanation in Luke 13:31–13:35. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Luke 13:31–13:35
Read Luke 13:32 with 13:31–13:35. In isolation, this contribution—answers Herod's threat with continued release and healing rather than fear or retaliation—can be detached from its speaker, audience, scene or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Warned that Herod seeks his life, Jesus continues his work, names Jerusalem's prophet-killing history, longs to gather its children like a hen, and announces a desolate house until future acclamation.
Follow the Context
- Identify the actors, setting, and initiating speech or action in Luke 13:31–13:35.
- Warned that Herod seeks his life, Jesus continues his work, names Jerusalem's prophet-killing history, longs to gather its children like a hen, and announces a desolate house until future acclamation.
- Hold this material interpretive limit in view: Pharisees here warn Jesus; they are not a single hostile bloc. The lament is Jewish prophetic grief and hope, not Christian permission to condemn Jews or celebrate Jerusalem's suffering.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
This verse does not detach its specific contribution—answers Herod's threat with continued release and healing rather than fear or retaliation—from the complete unit or override the unit's explicit boundary: The lament does not authorize antisemitism, victim blame, fatalism, nationalist ownership of Jerusalem, or portraying every Pharisee as an enemy.
What Remains True
Luke 13:32 answers Herod's threat with continued release and healing rather than fear or retaliation. Read inside Luke 13:31–13:35, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: Warned that Herod seeks his life, Jesus continues his work, names Jerusalem's prophet-killing history, longs to gather its children like a hen, and announces a desolate house until future acclamation. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Luke 13:31–13:35 — Jesus Defies Herod and Laments JerusalemSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 13:31–13:35, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 13:31–13:35
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 13:31–13:35
Open source ↗