Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
Nevertheless I must walk today, and tomorrow, and the day following. Remarkable language, expressive of successive steps of His work yet remaining, of the calm deliberateness with which He meant to go through with them, one after another, to the last, unmoved by Herod's threat, but of the rapid march with which they were now hastening to completion! (Compare Luke 22:37.)
For it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. Awful severity of satire this upon 'the bloody city'! 'He seeks to "kill me" does He? Ah! I must be out of Herod's jurisdiction for that: Go tell him I neither fly from him nor fear him, but Jerusalem has ever been, and is once more to become, the prophet's slaughter-house.'