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and <i>some</i> of you shall they cause to be put to death.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/alford/luke/21.htm" title="Henry Alford - Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary">Alford</a> • <a href="/commentaries/barnes/luke/21.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/bengel/luke/21.htm" title="Bengel's Gnomen">Bengel</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/luke/21.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/luke/21.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/luke/21.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/luke/21.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/luke/21.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/luke/21.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/luke/21.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/luke/21.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/luke/21.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/egt/luke/21.htm" title="Expositor's Greek">Exp Grk</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/luke/21.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/luke/21.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/luke/21.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/luke/21.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/luke/21.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/luke/21.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/luke/19-41.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/luke/21.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/icc/luke/21.htm" title="ICC NT Commentary">ICC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/luke/21.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/luke/21.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/luke/21.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/luke/21.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/luke/21.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/luke/21.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/luke/21.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/meyer/luke/21.htm" title="Meyer Commentary">Meyer</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/luke/21.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pnt/luke/21.htm" title="People's New Testament">PNT</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/luke/21.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/luke/21.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/luke/21.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/luke/21.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/luke/21.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/vws/luke/21.htm" title="Vincent's Word Studies">VWS</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/luke/21.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/luke/21.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>21:5-28 With much curiosity those about Christ ask as to the time when the great desolation should be. He answers with clearness and fulness, as far as was necessary to teach them their duty; for all knowledge is desirable as far as it is in order to practice. Though spiritual judgements are the most common in gospel times, yet God makes use of temporal judgments also. Christ tells them what hard things they should suffer for his name's sake, and encourages them to bear up under their trials, and to go on in their work, notwithstanding the opposition they would meet with. God will stand by you, and own you, and assist you. This was remarkably fulfilled after the pouring out of the Spirit, by whom Christ gave his disciples wisdom and utterance. Though we may be losers for Christ, we shall not, we cannot be losers by him, in the end. It is our duty and interest at all times, especially in perilous, trying times, to secure the safety of our own souls. It is by Christian patience we keep possession of our own souls, and keep out all those impressions which would put us out of temper. We may view the prophecy before us much as those Old Testament prophecies, which, together with their great object, embrace, or glance at some nearer object of importance to the church. Having given an idea of the times for about thirty-eight years next to come, Christ shows what all those things would end in, namely, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the utter dispersion of the Jewish nation; which would be a type and figure of Christ's second coming. The scattered Jews around us preach the truth of Christianity; and prove, that though heaven and earth shall pass away, the words of Jesus shall not pass away. They also remind us to pray for those times when neither the real, nor the spiritual Jerusalem, shall any longer be trodden down by the Gentiles, and when both Jews and Gentiles shall be turned to the Lord. When Christ came to destroy the Jews, he came to redeem the Christians that were persecuted and oppressed by them; and then had the churches rest. When he comes to judge the world, he will redeem all that are his from their troubles. So fully did the Divine judgements come upon the Jews, that their city is set as an example before us, to show that sins will not pass unpunished; and that the terrors of the Lord, and his threatenings against impenitent sinners, will all come to pass, even as his word was true, and his wrath great upon Jerusalem.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/luke/21.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>A mouth - Eloquence, ability to speak as the case may demand. Compare <a href="/exodus/4-11.htm">Exodus 4:11</a>.<p>Gainsay - Speak against. They will not be able to "reply" to it, or to "resist" the force of what you shall say.<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/luke/21.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>13. for a testimony—an opportunity of bearing testimony.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/luke/21.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div>Ver. 16,17. <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/matthew/24-9.htm" title="Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.">Matthew 24:9</a>"</span>, <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/matthew/24-10.htm" title="And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.">Matthew 24:10</a>"</span>, <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/mark/8-12.htm" title="And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, Why does this generation seek after a sign? truly I say to you, There shall no sign be given to this generation.">Mark 8:12</a>"</span>, <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/mark/8-13.htm" title="And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.">Mark 8:13</a>"</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/luke/21.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren,.... See Gill on <a href="/matthew/10-21.htm">Matthew 10:21</a>. <p>and kinsfolks, and friends. The Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions add, "your", to each of these relations, as your parents, &c. <p>and some of you shall they cause to be put to death; as Stephen was stoned to death, and James, the brother of John, Herod killed with the sword, <a href="/acts/7-58.htm">Acts 7:58</a> and indeed all of them were put to death, except John, before the destruction of Jerusalem. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/luke/21.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/meyer/luke/21.htm">Meyer's NT Commentary</a></div><a href="/luke/21-16.htm" title="And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.">Luke 21:16</a>. <span class="greekheb">Καί</span>] Bengel rightly says: “non modo ab alienis.” Comp., besides, <a href="/mark/13-12.htm" title="Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.">Mark 13:12</a> f.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/luke/21.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/luke/21-16.htm" title="And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.">Luke 21:16</a>. <span class="greekheb">καὶ</span>, even, by parents, etc.: <span class="ital">non modo alienis</span>, Beng.—<span class="greekheb">ἐξ ὑμῶν</span>, some of you, limiting the unqualified statement of Mk., and with the facts of apostolic history in view.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/luke/21.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">16</span><span class="ital">.</span> <span class="ital">ye shall be betrayed</span>] In consequence of the disunions prophesied in <a href="/luke/1-34.htm" title="Then said Mary to the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?">Luke 1:34</a>, <a href="/luke/12-53.htm" title="The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.">Luke 12:53</a>; <a href="/matthew/10-21.htm" title="And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.">Matthew 10:21</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">some of you</span>] of the four to whom He was immediately speaking, perhaps all, and certainly two were martyred.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/luke/21.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/luke/21-16.htm" title="And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.">Luke 21:16</a>. <span class="greekheb">Καὶ ὑπὸ</span> <span class="ital">even</span> [Engl. Vers. not so well, ‘both’] <span class="ital">by parents</span>, not merely by strangers not related to you. [It is less appropriate to understand the declaration in this passage of the parents of Peter or of John (<a href="/mark/13-3.htm" title="And as he sat on the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,">Mark 13:3</a>), than of the parents of the remaining apostles or disciples.—V. g.]—<span class="greekheb">θανατώσουσιν</span>, <span class="ital">they shall put to death</span>) some: as James the brother of John.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/luke/21.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 16.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends</span>. His disciples must be prepared to pay, as the price of their friendship with him, the sacrifice of all home and domestic life and peace. How often in the records of the early Christians are these terrible sufferings added to public persecution! Literally, his own would have very often to give up mother, father, friends, for his sake<span class="cmt_word">. And some of you shall they cause to be put to death</span>. This was literally true in the case of several of those then listening to him. 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