For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
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 coming, which was not so fully spoken of...
Commenting on Luke 21:20-28
Men's hearts failing them for fear,.... Of what these signs in the heaven, earth, and sea portend: and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; on the land of Judea: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken; See Gill on Mat 24:29.
Verse 22. All things which are written may be fulfilled. Judgment had been threatened by almost all the prophets against that wicked city. They had spoken of its crimes and threatened its ruin. Once God had destroyed Jerusalem and carried the people to Babylon; but their crimes had been repeated when they returned, and God had again threatened their ruin. Particularly was this very destruction foretold by Daniel, .