Luke 21:18 - Exposition

But there shall not an hair of your head perish . Not, of course, to be understood literally; for comp. Luke 21:16 . Bengel's comment accurately paraphrases it: "Not a hair of your head shall perish without the special providence of God, nor without reward, nor before the due time." The words, too, had a general fulfillment; for the Christian community of Palestine, warned by this very discourse of the Lord's, fled in time from the doomed city, and so escaped the extermination which overtook the Jewish people in the great war which ended in the fall of Jerusalem ( a.d. 70).