26 people fainting from fear and expectation of what is coming on the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.[a] 27 And then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud[b] with power and great glory. 28 But when[c] these things begin to happen, stand up straight and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near!”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 21:26 An allusion to Isa 34:4
  2. Luke 21:27 An allusion to Dan 7:13
  3. Luke 21:28 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“begin”)