Luke Chapter 21 verse 28 Holy Bible
But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.
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But when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near.
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But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws nigh.
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And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near."
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and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'
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Luke 21 : 28 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 28-36. - Practical teaching arising the foregoing prophecy respecting the Jerusalem and the "last things." Verse 28. - And when these things begin to come to pan, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. There is no doubt that the first reference in this verse is to the earlier part of the prophecy - the fate of the city and the ruin of the Jewish power. "Your redemption" would then signify "your deliverance from the constant and bitter hostility of the Jewish authority." After A.D. and the fall of Jerusalem, the growth of Christianity was far more rapid than it had been the first thirty or forty years of its It had no longer to cope with the skilfully ordered, relentless opposition of its deadly Jewish foe. Yet between the lines a yet deeper meaning is discernible. In all times the earnest Christian is on the watch for the signs of the advent of his Lord, and the restless watch serves to keep hope alive, for the watcher knows that that advent will be the sure herald of his redemption from all the weariness and painfulness of this life.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) Look up.--The Greek word, literally, bend up, or turn up, meets us here and in Luke 13:11, and nowhere else in the New Testament, except in the doubtful passage of John 8:7; John 8:10.Redemption.--The word, familiar as it is to us, is, in the special form here used, another of those characteristic of St. Paul's phraseology (Romans 3:24; Romans 8:23; 1Corinthians 1:30; Ephesians 1:7, et al.). It occurs also in Hebrews 9:15; Hebrews 11:35. In its primary meaning here it points to the complete deliverance of the disciples from Jewish persecutions in Palestine that followed on the destruction of Jerusalem. The Church of Christ was then delivered from what had been its most formidable danger. . . .
