Ye shall not see me, etc. The day of your mercy has passed. I have offered you protection and salvation, and you have rejected it. You are…

Till you say — This phrase obviously refers to the words from Psalm 118:26, which the crowd had uttered just a few days before dur…

Nothing remained for the King but to pronounce the solemn sentence of death upon those who would not come to Him that they might have life: Beh…

St. John Chrysostom: The Lord next turns to address the city, desiring to instruct His listeners by this. "O Jerusalem, Jerusa…

Here Jesus refers to his Parousia. When he returns, all will acknowledge him as Lord in the future consummation. The context strongly implies that …

For I tell you. He confirms what he had said about the approaching vengeance of God, by saying that the only method of avoiding destructio…

For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth
Meaning in a very little time after the passover, from the time of…

Our Lord declares the miseries the inhabitants of Jerusalem were about to bring upon themselves, but He does not mention the sufferings He was to u…

In this part, He recounts their cruelty, and He adds their earthly punishment. To begin with, He does the first thing; and secondly, He adds their …