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For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
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A Literal Prophecy Fulfilled
Commentators emphasize the stunning historical accuracy of Jesus's prediction. About 40 years later, in A.D. 70, the Roman army under Titus did exactly as Jesus foretold. The historian Josephus records that they built a wall, or 'trench,' nearly five miles long around the entire city to 'keep them in on every side,' leading to its eventual fall.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He wept over it. Showing His compassion for the guilty city, and His strong sense of the evils that were about to come upon it (see Barnes…
Shall cast up a bank (παρεμβαλουσιν χαρακα). Future active indicative of παρεμβαλλω, a double compound (παρα, εν, βαλλω) of long u…
19th Century
Anglican
The days shall come upon thee. We again come upon a cluster of words peculiar, as far as the New Testament is concerned, …
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Baptist
For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, a…
Jesus is still outside the city of Jerusalem as he utters this lament. Once more Luke focuses on Jesus’ concern for the city (cf. 13:34) and adds h…
16th Century
Protestant
For the days shall come upon thee. He now assumes, as it were, the character of a judge, and addresses Jerusalem with greater severity. In…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the days shall come upon you Suddenly, and very quickly, as they did within forty years after this:
Who can behold the holy Jesus, looking forward to the miseries that awaited his murderers, weeping over the city where his precious blood was about…
