Luke 21:32

Luke 21:32

30 When they are already budding, you see and know for yourselves that summer is now near.

31 So you also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

32 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all things take place.

33 ^aHeaven and earth will pass away, but My ^bwords will by no means pass away.

The Importance of Watching

34 “But ^atake heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with¹ carousing, drunkenness, and ^bcares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.

35 For ^ait will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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This generation (h genea auth). Naturally people then living.

Shall not pass away (ou mh parelqh). Second aorist active subjunctive of parerxomai. Strongest possible negative with ou mh.

Till all things be accomplished (ewv an panta genhtai). Second aorist middle subjunctive of ginomai with ewv, common idiom. The words give a great deal of trouble to critics. Some apply them to the whole discourse including the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem, the second coming and the end of the world. Some of these argue that Jesus was simply mistaken in his eschatology, some that he has not been properly reported in the Gospels. Others apply them only to the destruction of Jerusalem which did take place in AD 70 before that generation passed away. It must be said for this view that it is not easy in this great eschatological discourse to tell clearly when Jesus is discussing the destruction of Jerusalem and when the second coming. Plummer offers this solution: "The reference, therefore, is to the destruction of Jerusalem regarded as the type of the end of the world."

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