Luke 21:22

These be the days of vengeance. — The words answer to the “great tribulation” of St. Matthew and St. Mark, and seem, as indeed does St. Luke’s report of the discourse throughout, to be of the nature of a paraphrase. The word “vengeance” may have been chosen, on this view, in allusive reference to the teaching of Luke 18:7. It may be noted as one which, though not exclusively used by them, is yet characteristic both of St. Luke and St. Paul (Romans 12:19; 2 Corinthians 7:11; and 2 Thessalonians 1:8). The reference to the “things which are (better, have been) written,” is peculiar to St. Luke.