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For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Luke 21:22 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
  • BSB For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
  • NKJV For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
  • NASB because these are days of punishment, so that all things which have been written will be fulfilled.
  • NLT For those will be days of God’s vengeance, and the prophetic words of the Scriptures will be fulfilled.

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Quick answer

These are days of vengeance, fulfilling what Scripture had foretold.

Overview

The fall of Jerusalem is presented as divine judgment in fulfillment of the prophets. It marked the consequences of rejecting God's Messiah and the covenant warnings of old. God's word is sure, and His justice is enacted in history.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Hos 9:7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
  • Isa 65:12–16Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
  • Isa 63:4For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
  • 2 Pet 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
  • Jer 51:6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
  • Isa 34:8For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
  • Dan 9:24–27Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
  • Mark 13:19–20For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
  • 2 Pet 3:7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
  • Deut 32:43Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
  • Rom 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Zech 11:1–3Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
  • Isa 61:2To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
  • Matt 1:22Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
  • Mal 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Ps 149:7–9To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
  • Deut 29:19–28And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
  • Deut 32:34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
  • Lev 26:14–33But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
  • Zech 14:1–2Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
  • Deut 28:15–68But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
  • Ps 69:22–28Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

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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.

How Luke 21:22 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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