Quotes about Expectation
So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
— Luke 13:7
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
— Luke 15:29
Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink’?
— Luke 17:8
When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs.
— Luke 17:20
Then He said to the disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
— Luke 17:22
While the people were listening to this, Jesus proceeded to tell them a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they thought the kingdom of God would appear imminently.
— Luke 19:11
When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
— Luke 21:28
And if I ask you a question, you will not answer.
— Luke 22:68
When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased. He had wanted to see Him for a long time, because he had heard about Him and was hoping to see Him perform a miracle.
— Luke 23:8
But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.
— Luke 24:21
(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
— John 3:24
They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”
— John 11:56