them, as they were reading about their Lord’s journey to Jerusalem and death, to come on this story? What would it have been saying to their questions about the crisis of identity and meaning they faced? In Luke 9:51–56 Jesus and the disciples encounter opposition from a Samaritan village. They were not welcomed because “he was heading for Jerusalem.” Old animosities flare up. The disciples respond with the same old formula from a language house that viscerally reacts to Samaritans: “Call down fire