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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 21:20-28

Having given them an idea of the times for about thirty-eight years next ensuing, he here comes to show them what all those things would issue in at last, namely, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the utter dispersion of the Jewish nation, which would be a little day of judgment, a type and figure of Christ's second coming, which was not so fully spoken of here as in the parallel place (Matt. 24:1-51), yet glanced at; for the destruction of Jerusalem would be as it were the destruction of the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 21:29-38

Here, in the close of this discourse, I. Christ appoints his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by, if they had an eye to the foregoing directions, with as much certainty and assurance as they could judge of the approach of summer by the budding forth of the trees, Luke 21:29-31. As in the kingdom of nature there is a chain of causes, so in the kingdom of providence there is a consequence of one event upon another. When we see a nation filling up the measure of... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 21:25-37

21:25-37 And there will be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on earth the nations will be in distress and will not know what to do in the roaring of the sea and of the wave, while men's hearts will swoon from fear and from foreboding of the things that are coming on the world. The power of the heavens will be shaken; and then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud, with power and much glory. When these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your hearts for your deliverance... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:25

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon ,.... They shall be darkened, and suffer very strange and surprising eclipses: and in the stars ; they shall fall from heaven, as in Matthew 24:29 and so the Ethiopic version reads here: all which, as it may be understood in a literal sense, so it may likewise in figurative and mystical one, and be interpreted of the changes there should be in the Jewish state; See Gill on Matthew 24:29 . So the Jewish writers F8 In Prefat.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:26

Men's hearts failing them for fear ,.... Of what these signs in the heaven, earth, and sea portend: and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth ; on the land of Judea: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken ; See Gill on Matthew 24:29 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:27

And then shall they see the son of man ,.... See Gill on Matthew 24:30 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:28

And when these things begin to come to pass ,.... When the first of these signs appears, or any one of them: then look up and lift up your heads ; be cheerful and pleasant; do not hang down your heads as bulrushes, but erect them, and put on a cheerful countenance, and look upwards, from whence your help comes; and look out wistfully and intently, for your salvation and deliverance: for your redemption draweth nigh ; not the redemption of their souls from sin, Satan, the law, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:29

And he spake to them a parable ,.... That is, to his disciples: behold the fig tree, and all the trees ; that, or any other tree; See Gill on Matthew 24:32 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:30

When they now shoot forth ,.... Their buds, branches, and leaves; the Vulgate Latin adds, "of themselves": ye see and know of your own selves ; without any hint, or direction from others, the case is so plain and obvious; the Syriac and Arabic versions read, "of them"; the trees, by their putting forth their buds and leaves; the Persic and Ethiopic versions leave out the clause "of yourselves"; and none of the Oriental versions lead the word see: the summer is now nigh at hand : see ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:31

So likewise when ye see these things come to pass ,.... The signs before mentioned, in Luke 21:8 . Know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand : a more visible and glorious display of the kingdom of the Messiah, in the destruction of his enemies, the Jews; see Mark 9:1 . read more

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