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Interpreting the twenty-first chapter of Luke can be challenging. The chapter begins with Jesus’ prophecy of the destruction of the temple, including his call for discernment and warning of what would come. This leads us to begin interpreting the passage through that one historical event. But the destruction of the temple may also serve, as Charles Spurgeon puts it, as “a kind of rehearsal of what is yet to be,” like “the uprolling of the curtain on the great drama of the world’s doom.”[2] Jesus tells of what was to come and through it what is to come before he comes again.