Blessed (μακαρια). A beatitude to the barren, the opposite of the hopes of Jewish mothers. Childless women are commiserated (1:25,…

Blessed are the barren.—We must enter into all the passionate desire of Israelite women for offspring, as we see it, …

And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, who also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning to them said, Daughters o…

Glossa Ordinaria: Having related the condemnation of Christ, Luke naturally goes on to speak of His crucifixion, as it is said…

As Jesus heads to Calvary, Luke records an incident that expresses Jesus’ concern for the fate of Jerusalem (cf. 19:41–44; 21:20–24). Jewish women …

For, lo, the days will come. He threatens that a calamity which is not usual, but fearful and unheard of, is near, in which God's vengeanc…

For behold the days are coming
The time is hastening on; yet a little while, a few years more, and such times of dis…

Here we have the blessed Jesus, the Lamb of God, led as a lamb to the slaughter, to the sacrifice. Though many reproached and reviled him, yet some…