Luke 17:22

He said to the disciples, “The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

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WEBBE

He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

BSB

Then He said to the disciples, “ The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

KJV

And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not seeit.

ASV

And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

BBE

And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.

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Εἶπεν Eipen He said G2036 δὲ de then G1161 πρὸς pros to G4314 τοὺς tous the G3588 μαθητάς mathētas disciples G3101 ἐλεύσονται eleusontai Will come G2064 ἡμέραι hēmerai days G2250 ὅτε hote when G3753 ἐπιθυμήσετε epithumēsete you will desire G1937 μίαν mian one G1520 τῶν tōn of the G3588 ἡμερῶν hēmerōn days G2250 τοῦ tou of the G3588 υἱοῦ huiou Son G5207 τοῦ tou (the) G3588 ἀνθρώπου anthrōpou of Man G444 ἰδεῖν idein to see G1492 καὶ kai and G2532 οὐκ ouk not G3756 ὄψεσθε opsesthe you will behold [it] G3700

The early church

When our Lord said, The kingdom of God is within you, He would fain prepare His disciples for suffering, that being made strong they might be able to enter the kingdom of God; He therefore foretells to them, that before His coming from heaven at the end of the world, persecution will break out upon them. Hence it follows, And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, &c. meaning that so terrible will be the persecution, that they would desire to see one of His days, that is, of that time when they yet walked with Christ. Truly the Jews ofttimes beset Christ with reproaches and insults, and sought to stone Him, and ofttimes would have hurled Him down from the mountain; but even these seem to be looked upon as slight in comparison of greater evils that are to come.

Cyril of Alexandria · d. 444Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Or, by the day of Christ He signifies His kingdom, which we hope will come, and He rightly says, one day, because there shall no darkness disturb the glory of that blessed time. It is right then to long for the day of Christ, yet from the earnestness of our longing, let us not vision to ourselves as though the day were at hand. Hence it follows, And they shall say to you, Lo here! and, Lo there!

Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

For their life was then without trouble, for Christ took care of them and protected them. But the time was coming when Christ should be taken away, and they should be exposed to perils, being brought before kings and princes, and then they should long for the first time and its tranquillity.

Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 20–37

The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of Divine grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly, and in what state the judgments of God, which they had been warned of, found them. Here is shown what a dreadful surprise this destruction will be to the secure and sensual. Thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. When Christ came to destroy the Jewish nation by the Roman armies, that nation was found in such a state of false security as is here spoken of. In like manner, when Jesus Christ shall come to judge the world, sinners will be found altogether regardless; for in like manner the sinners of every age go on securely in their evil ways, and remember not their latter end. But wherever the wicked are, who are marked for eternal ruin, they shall be found by the judgments of God.

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