As a snare. In Matthew and Mark Jesus compares the suddenness with which these calamities would come to the deluge coming in the days of N…

As a snare . . .—The word is not found in the other Gospels, but is used several times by Saint Paul ([Reference Romans 1…

You know what he did there, for –

"Cold mountains and the midnight air,
Witnessed the fervor of his prayer."

Jesus ever practiced …

Theophylact of Ohrid: Our Lord declared above the terrifying and tangible signs of the evils that will overtake sinners, ag…

For as a snare shall it come In which a bird is suddenly taken, and cannot get out again;

the Persic version rende…

Christ tells His disciples to observe the signs of the times, by which they could judge. He charges them to consider the ruin of the Jewish nation …