Luke 21:28 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 21:28

When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

BSB

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ASV

But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.

KJV

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

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Commentary

1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 1 (604)

But because these things have been said against the reprobate, the words soon turn to the consolation of the elect. For it is added: "But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near."

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2496: “Joyful Anticipation of the Second Advent” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1896)

I have already said that I conceive our Lord Jesus Christ to have regarded the destruction of Jerusalem as "the beginning of the end." Although some 1800 years have rolled away since that terrible event, we, with Him, may make but small account of the interval and regard it all as one dispensation of passing away. That beautiful city was the very crown of the entire earth because God had dwelt there.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

The subject of this portion of our Lord's great prophecy, is His own second coming to judge the world. The strong expressions of the passage appear inapplicable to any event less important than this. To confine the words before us, to the taking of Jerusalem by the Romans, in an unnatural straining of Scripture language. We see, firstly, in this passage — how terrible will be the circumstances accompanying the second coming of Christ. Our Lord tells us that "there will be signs in the sun, moon and stars.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

What this was intended to mean, interpreters are not agreed. But as before Christ came to destroy Jerusalem, some appalling portents were seen in the air, so before His personal appearing it is likely that something analogous will be witnessed, though of what nature it is vain to conjecture.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἀρχομένων	Archomenōn	Beginning	G757 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
τούτων	toutōn	of these things	G3778 →
γίνεσθαι	ginesthai	to come to pass	G1096 →
ἀνακύψατε	anakupsate	do look up	G352 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐπάρατε	eparate	do lift up	G1869 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
κεφαλὰς	kephalas	heads	G2776 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
διότι	dioti	because	G1360 →
ἐγγίζει	engizei	draws near	G1448 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
ἀπολύτρωσις	apolutrōsis	redemption	G629 →
ὑμῶν.¶	humōn	of you.	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ephesians 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 5:19
  Do not extinguish the Spirit.
- Isaiah 63:10
  But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
- Ephesians 1:13–14
  And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
- Acts 7:51
  You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
- Genesis 6:6
  And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Through
Romans 8:23
Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
leads to
- Philippians 3:20–21
  But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
- 2 Corinthians 5:2–5
  For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,
Through
Romans 8:19
The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.
leads to
- Malachi 3:17–18
  “They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke