Luke Chapter 17 verse 25 Holy Bible
But first must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.
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But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.
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But first he must suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.
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But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
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But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
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and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. But, and here again he repeats "as a solemn refrain to all his teaching," the warning to his own of the fearful end fast coming on him. If he is to come again with glory, he must first go away with shame, persecuted, forsaken, by the generation then living. The suffering Messiah must precede the glorified Messiah. After this rejection and suffering would begin the period alluded to above (ver. 22) as the time when men should long to have him only for one day in their midst. During this period Messiah should continue invisible to mortal eye. How long this state was to continue, one century or - (eighteen have already passed), Jesus himself, in his humiliation, knew not; but he announced (vers. 26-30) that a gloomy state of things on earth would be brought to a close by his reappearance. Ah! "when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?'
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) But first must he suffer many things.--See Notes on Matthew 16:21; Matthew 17:22. The interposition of this prophecy of the Passion in a discourse which bears primarily on the Second Advent is an individualising feature of this record of St. Luke's.