Luke 17:22
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And he said to the disciples, The days will come, when you shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you shall not see it.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And he said to the disciples, The days will come, when you shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you shall not see it.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.
Webster's Revision
And he said to his disciples, The days will come, when ye will desire to see one of the days of the son of man, and ye shall not see it.
World English Bible
He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Clarke's Luke 17:22 Bible Commentary
When ye shall desire to see one of the days - As it was our Lord's constant custom to support and comfort the minds of his disciples, we cannot suppose that he intimates here that they shall be left destitute of those blessings necessary for their support in a day of trial. When he says, Ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, he either means, ye of this nation, ye Jews, and addresses his disciples as if they should bear witness to the truth of the declaration; intimating that heavy calamities were about to fall upon them, and that they should desire in vain to have those opportunities of returning to God which now they rejected; or, he means that such should the distressed state of this people be, that the disciples would through pity and tenderness desire the removal of those punishments from them, which could not be removed because the cup of their iniquity was full. But the former is more likely to be the sense of the place.
Barnes's Luke 17:22 Bible Commentary
(The days will come He here takes occasion to direct the minds of his disciples to the days of vengeance which were about to fall on the Jewish nation. Heavy calamities will befall the Jewish people, and you will desire a deliverer.
Ye shall desire - You who now number yourselves among my disciples.
One of the days of the Son of man - The Son of man here means "the Messiah," without affirming that "he" was the Messiah. Such will be the calamities of those times, so great will be the afflictions and persecutions, that you will greatly desire "a deliverer" - one who shall come to you in the character in which "you have expected" the Messiah would come, and who would deliver you from the power of your enemies; and at that time, in the midst of these calamities, people shall rise up pretending "to be" the Messiah, and to be able to deliver you. In view of this, he takes occasion to caution them against being led astray by them.
Ye shall not see it - You shall not see such a day of deliverance - such a Messiah as the nation has expected, and such an interposition as you would desire.
Wesley's Luke 17:22 Bible Commentary
17:22 Ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man - One day of mercy. or one day wherein you might converse with me, as you do now.