Ye shall win (κτησεσθε). Future middle of κταομα, to acquire. They will win their souls even if death does come.

In your patience. Rather, by your perseverance. The word patience here means constancy or perseverance in sustaining afflictions.…

In your patience possess you your souls.—Better, By your endurance gain you your lives. The verb, unless used in…

And it is so even to this day. Here is another instance in which the Lord instructed his people to expect his coming, and yet at the same time told…

St. Gregory the Great: Because the things that have been prophesied do not arise from the injustice of the one who inflicts the…

Encouragement during persecution. In its content this section bears some similarity to Mk 13:9–13 and also the account of the sending out of the Tw…

In your patience. Here Christ enjoins on his followers a different method of defending their life from what is dictated by carnal reason. …

In your patience, possess your souls .
] By patiently bearing all afflictions, reproaches, indignities, and persecut…

With much curiosity, those around Christ ask about the time when the great desolation would occur. He answers with clarity and fullness, to the ext…