Luke 17:22
The day will come,” he said to his disciples, “when you will long to see but one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see it.
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In Context
21nor will people say ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’; for the kingdom of God is within you!
23People will say to you ‘There he is!’ Or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go and follow them.
Cross References
Matthew 9:15Jesus answered, “Can the groom’s friends mourn as long as the groom is with them? But the days will come, when the groom will be taken away from them, and they will fast then.
Luke 5:35But the days will come – a time when the groom will be taken away from them; and they will fast then, when those days come.”
John 7:33at which Jesus said, “I will be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
John 12:35“Only a little while longer,” answered Jesus, “will you have the light among you. Travel on while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he who travels in the darkness does not know where he is going.
John 16:5I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me – ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:11Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to you. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of your name which you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are.
Matthew Henry on Luke 17:21-37
The Progress of Christ's Kingdom; Destruction of Jerusalem. 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. 22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not… Read the whole commentary →