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He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
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A Warning of Future Trials
Commentators explain that Jesus is shifting his focus to the disciples to manage their expectations. Instead of an immediate, glorious kingdom, they would face intense persecution and hardship. In those difficult times, they would look back and desperately long for even one of the peaceful days they were currently experiencing in Jesus' physical presence.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The days will come. He here takes the opportunity to direct the minds of his disciples to the days of vengeance which were about to fall o…
19th Century
Anglican
When you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man.—The words express both the backward glance of regret and the forwar…
Baptist
And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save thi…
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Jesus continues the emphasis on the suddenness of the kingdom’s coming. “One of the days” probably refers to the initiation of the reign of the com…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said to his disciples Who also were expecting a worldly kingdom, and external honours, and temporal emolument…
The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a spiritual kingdom, established in the heart by the power of Divine g…
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