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Luke 21:28 KJV
Luke · chapter 21 · verse 28
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.Luke 21:28 · King James Version
Luke 21:28 in context
26Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
29And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
30When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- redemptionapolytrōsisa releasing effected by payment of ransom, redemption, deliverance, liberation procured…G629 →
- beginarchomaito be the first to do , to begin, to be chief, leader, ruler, to begin, make a beginningG756 →
- headskephalēthe head, both of men and often of animals. Since the loss of the head destroys life…G2776 →
- passginomaito becomeG1096 →
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Having given them an idea of the times for about thirty-eight years next ensuing, he here comes to show them what all those things would issue in at last, namely, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the utter dispersion of the Jewish nation, which would be a little day of judgment, a type and figure of Christ's second…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-28