Luke 21:22
For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
KJV
ὅτι ἡμέραι ἐκδικήσεως αὗταί εἰσίν τοῦ πλησθῆναι πάντα τὰ γεγραμμένα.
Greek NT
quia dies ultionis hi sunt, ut impleantur omnia quæ scripta sunt.
Vulgate
For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
ASV
For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be fulfilled, that are written.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πλήθω
pletho
verb · 24×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἐκδίκησις
ekdikesis
noun · 9×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
The Jewish War · 2 passages
THE KEY BOOK for the Olivet Discourse. Josephus describes Titus's siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 in extraordinary detail: the three walls of the city, the Temple complex (the most detailed ancient description of the Second Temple), the famine, the crucifixions outside the walls, the breaching of the outer walls. Every detail corresponds to Jesus's prophecy: "not one stone shall be…
The climactic book: the burning of the Second Temple on the 9th/10th of Ab, AD 70 — the same date (according to tradition) as the destruction of Solomon's Temple in 586 BC. Josephus describes portents and signs that preceded the destruction: a star resembling a sword stood over the city, a light shone around the altar, the eastern gate of the Temple opened of its own accord, ch…
Cross-references
- 2Chr 15:6 — And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
- 2Pet 2:9 — The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
- 2Pet 3:7 — But 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.
- Dan 9:24 — Seventy 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 right
- Deut 32:43 — Rejoice, 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.
- Hos 9:7 — The 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 4:1 — And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
- Isa 34:8 — For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
- Isa 59:18 — According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
- Isa 61:2 — To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
- Isa 61:2 — To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
- Isa 63:4 — For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
- Isa 63:4 — For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
- Isa 65:12 — Therefore 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 ch
- Jer 51:6 — Flee 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.
- Job 24:1 — Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
- Luke 13:3 — I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
- Luke 19:27 — But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
- Luke 24:44 — And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the
- Mal 4:1 — For, 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 i
- Mal 4:6 — And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
- Mark 13:19 — For 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.
- Mark 13:19 — For 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.
- Matt 1:22 — Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
- Ps 149:7 — To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
- Rev 6:10 — And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
- Rom 2:5 — But 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 — Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.