Woe unto them—Better, alas for them, or woe for them. The tone is that of pity rather than denunciation. The har…

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on …

St. John Chrysostom: Just as He had previously hinted obscurely at the end of Jerusalem, He now gives a more direct announceme…

The instructions Jesus gives to his disciples about what to do in view of v.15 are so specific that they must be related to the Jewish War. The dev…

And woe unto them that are with child
Not that it should be criminal for them to be with child, or a judgment on them; for it …

The disciples had asked concerning the times, "When should these things be?" Christ gave them no answer to that; but they had also asked, "What sha…

Having already related the destruction, in this part He relates that the consummation will come, and He gives a sort of introduction.