Luke 19:14

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“But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’”

— WEB

“But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.”

— KJV

“But his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not that this man reign over us.”

— ASV

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1 Samuel 8:7 "Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have reject…"
Acts 7:51-52 "“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do."
Acts 3:14-15 "But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,"
John 1:11 "He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him."
Psalms 2:1-3 "Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?"
Luke 19:27 "But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”"
John 15:23-24 "He who hates me, hates my Father also."
John 15:18 "If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you."

Commentary

his citizens--His proper subjects; meaning the Jews, who expressly repudiating our Lord's claims said, "We have no king but CÃ&brvbrsar" (Joh 19:15). In Christendom, these correspond to infidel rejecters of Christianity, as distinguished from professed Christians.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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