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Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
Luke 13:35 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
  • KJV Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
  • NKJV See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
  • NASB Behold, your house is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you will not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
  • NLT And now, look, your house is abandoned. And you will never see me again until you say, ‘Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

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Quick answer

Jesus declares their house left desolate and that they will not see Him until they bless Him as the coming One. Rejecting Christ brings desolation, yet a future welcome is promised.

Overview

The 'desolate house' anticipates the coming judgment on Jerusalem and its temple. The quotation from Psalm 118 points to His triumphal entry and ultimately to a future day when His people will receive Him. The verse holds together present judgment and a horizon of hope when Christ is at last welcomed as Lord.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 28

  • Ps 118:26Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. From the house of the LORD we bless you.
  • Mark 11:9–10The ones who went ahead and those who followed were shouting: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”
  • Matt 21:9The crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed were shouting: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”
  • John 12:13They took palm branches and went out to meet Him, shouting: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the King of Israel!”
  • John 14:19–23In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.
  • Isa 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
  • John 12:35–36Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
  • Hos 3:4–5For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
  • Luke 19:38–40“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
  • Luke 21:5–6As some of the disciples were remarking how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and consecrated gifts, Jesus said,
  • Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • John 7:34–36You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
  • John 8:22–24So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
  • Acts 6:13–14where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
  • Isa 1:7–8Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
  • Rom 10:9–15that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
  • Dan 9:26–27Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
  • Zech 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
  • Ps 69:25May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
  • Isa 5:5–6Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  • Isa 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
  • 2 Cor 3:15–18And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
  • Zech 14:2For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
  • Lev 26:31–32I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
  • Mic 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
  • Isa 40:9–11Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”
  • Jer 22:5But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
  • Zech 11:1–2Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

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Christ at the center

Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.

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