How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
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
And then shall they see the son of man,.... See Gill on Mat 24:30. . Luke 21:28 luk 21:28 luk 21:28 luk 21:28And when these things begin to come to pass,.... When the first of these signs appears, or any one of them: then look up and lift up your heads; be cheerful and pleasant; do not hang down your heads as bulrushes, but erect...
woe unto--"alas for." with child, &c.--from the greater suffering it would involve; as also "flight in winter, and on the sabbath," which they were to "pray" against (Mat 24:20), the one as more trying to the body, the other to the soul.