Luke 21:28
New International Version
When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

New Living Translation
So when all these things begin to happen, stand and look up, for your salvation is near!”

English Standard Version
Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

Berean Standard Bible
When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

Berean Literal Bible
And of these things beginning to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near."

King James Bible
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

New King James Version
Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

New American Standard Bible
But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

NASB 1995
“But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

NASB 1977
“But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

Legacy Standard Bible
But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

Amplified Bible
Now when these things begin to occur, stand tall and lift up your heads [in joy], because [suffering ends as] your redemption is drawing near.”

Christian Standard Bible
But when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift your heads, because your redemption is near.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near!”

American Standard Version
But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But whenever these things begin to happen, take heart and lift up your heads, because your salvation draws near.”

Contemporary English Version
When all of this starts happening, stand up straight and be brave. You will soon be set free.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand.

English Revised Version
But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"When these things begin to happen, stand with confidence! The time when you will be set free is near."

Good News Translation
When these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your salvation is near."

International Standard Version
"Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your deliverance is approaching."

Literal Standard Version
and these things beginning to happen, bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

Majority Standard Bible
When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

New American Bible
But when these signs begin to happen, stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand.”

NET Bible
But when these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."

New Revised Standard Version
Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

New Heart English Bible
But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near."

Webster's Bible Translation
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads: for your redemption draweth nigh.

Weymouth New Testament
But when all this is beginning to take place, grieve no longer. Lift up your heads, because your deliverance is drawing near."

World English Bible
But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

Young's Literal Translation
and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'

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Context
The Return of the Son of Man
27At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” 29Then Jesus told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.…

Cross References
Luke 13:11
and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.

Luke 18:7
Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?

Luke 21:29
Then Jesus told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees.


Treasury of Scripture

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near.

look.

Psalm 98:5-9
Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm…

Isaiah 12:1-3
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me…

Isaiah 25:8,9
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it

redemption.

Romans 8:19,23
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God…

Ephesians 1:14
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 4:30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

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Luke 21
1. Jesus commends the poor widow.
5. He foretells the destruction of the temple, and of the city Jerusalem;
25. the signs also which shall be before the last day.
34. He exhorts them to be watchful.














(28) Look up.--The Greek word, literally, bend up, or turn up, meets us here and in Luke 13:11, and nowhere else in the New Testament, except in the doubtful passage of John 8:7; John 8:10.

Redemption.--The word, familiar as it is to us, is, in the special form here used, another of those characteristic of St. Paul's phraseology (Romans 3:24; Romans 8:23; 1Corinthians 1:30; Ephesians 1:7, et al.). It occurs also in Hebrews 9:15; Hebrews 11:35. In its primary meaning here it points to the complete deliverance of the disciples from Jewish persecutions in Palestine that followed on the destruction of Jerusalem. The Church of Christ was then delivered from what had been its most formidable danger. . . .

Verses 28-36. - Practical teaching arising the foregoing prophecy respecting the Jerusalem and the "last things." Verse 28. - And when these things begin to come to pan, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. There is no doubt that the first reference in this verse is to the earlier part of the prophecy - the fate of the city and the ruin of the Jewish power. "Your redemption" would then signify "your deliverance from the constant and bitter hostility of the Jewish authority." After A.D. and the fall of Jerusalem, the growth of Christianity was far more rapid than it had been the first thirty or forty years of its It had no longer to cope with the skilfully ordered, relentless opposition of its deadly Jewish foe. Yet between the lines a yet deeper meaning is discernible. In all times the earnest Christian is on the watch for the signs of the advent of his Lord, and the restless watch serves to keep hope alive, for the watcher knows that that advent will be the sure herald of his redemption from all the weariness and painfulness of this life.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
When
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

these things
τούτων (toutōn)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

begin
ἀρχομένων (archomenōn)
Verb - Present Participle Middle - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 756: To begin. Middle voice of archo; to commence.

to happen,
γίνεσθαι (ginesthai)
Verb - Present Infinitive Middle or Passive
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

stand up
ἀνακύψατε (anakypsate)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 352: To raise myself, look up, be elated. From ana and kupto; to unbend, i.e. Rise; figuratively, be elated.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

lift up
ἐπάρατε (eparate)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1869: To raise, lift up. From epi and airo; to raise up.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

heads,
κεφαλὰς (kephalas)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 2776: From the primary kapto; the head, literally or figuratively.

because
διότι (dioti)
Conjunction
Strong's 1360: On this account, because, for. From dia and hoti; on the very account that, or inasmuch as.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

redemption
ἀπολύτρωσις (apolytrōsis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 629: From a compound of apo and lutron; ransom in full, i.e. riddance, or Christian salvation.

is drawing near.”
ἐγγίζει (engizei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1448: Trans: I bring near; intrans: I come near, approach. From eggus; to make near, i.e. approach.


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