Luke 21:34-36

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:34

And take heed to yourselves . The Master ended his discourse with an earnest practical reminder to his disciples to live ever with the sure expectation of his return to judgment. As for those who heard him then, conscious of the oncoming doom of the city, temple, and people, with the solemn procession of signs heralding the impending ruin ever before their eyes, no passions or cares of earth surely would hinder them from living the brave, pure life worthy of his servants. As for coming... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:34

Christian and unchristian carefulness. Take care not to be overtaken and overweighted by care is the simple and intelligible paradox of the text; in other words, have a wise care lest you have much care that is unwise. There is a carefulness that is eminently godly and worthy, the absence of which is not only faulty and dangerous, but even guilty and fatal; but there is another carefulness which is an excess, a wrong, an injury in the last degree. I. A WISE ORDINATION OF GOD .... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:36

Standing before Christ. "Watch … and pray that ye may be accounted worthy … to stand before the Son of man." What is involved in this worthiness? It must include our being— I. PREPARED TO GIVE ACCOUNT TO HIM . We know that we shall have to do that ( Romans 10:1-21 ; 2 Corinthians 5:10 ); and we must expect, when we do stand before the Judge, to account to Jesus Christ for II. CONFORMED TO HIS LIKENESS , Will not our Lord expect to find those who professed to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 21:7-36

The account of the destruction of Jerusalem contained in this chapter has been fully considered in the notes at Matthew 24:0. All that will be necessary here will be an explanation of a few words that did not occur in that chapter.Luke 21:9Commotions - Insurrections. Subjects rising against their rulers.Luke 21:11Fearful sights - See Matthew 24:7.Luke 21:12, Luke 21:13Synagogues, and into prisons - See the notes at Mark 13:9-10.Luke 21:14Settle it, therefore, in your hearts - Fix it firmly in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 21:34-36

Luke 21:34-36. Take heed, &c. Here our Lord cautions them against the security and sensuality, to which, if they should yield, they would unfit themselves for the trying times that were approaching, and would render those times a great surprise and terror to them; nay, and involve themselves in the ruin about to come on others of their countrymen. By this we learn, 1st, That Christ’s promises of deliverance to his disciples and the first Christians were conditional, and only to be... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 21:29-38

132. A warning to be alert always (Matthew 24:32-51; Mark 13:28-37; Luke 21:29-38)Just as the first leaves on a fig tree indicate that summer is coming, so when the disciples see the false messiahs, the persecution and the approach of the Roman armies, they will know that the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish nation is upon them. People of Jesus’ day would see the fulfilment of these things in their own lifetime (Matthew 24:32-35; Luke 21:29-33).As for the day when the Son of man will... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 21:34

hearts. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6 , for the whole person. overcharged = weighed down. Greek. baruno. Only here. Compare Luke 9:32 . 2 Corinthians 5:4 . surfeiting . Greek. kraipale. A medical word used for the nausea after drunkenness, from which is the Latin crapula. Occurs only here. The English is from the Old French surfait or sorfait = excess. drunkenness . Greek. methe. Occurs only here, Romans 13:13 .Galatians 1:5 , Galatians 1:21 . cares . See... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 21:35

as a snare . Compare Ecclesiastes 9:12 .Isaiah 24:17 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Luke 21:36

Watch . See on Mark 13:33 . and pray = praying. always = sin (Greek. en. App-104 .) every season. shall come to pass = are about to come to pass. stand. See Psalms 1:5 .Malachi 3:2 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 21:34

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare: for so shall it come upon all them that dwell upon the face of the earth. But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.Take heed to yourselves ... means that men should give more attention to their own spiritual... read more

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