Luke 12:57

Luke 12:57. And why, etc. A further reproach for want of knowledge of personal duty, which involved great want of prudence (Luke 12:58-59).

Even of yourselves. Either independently of their teachers, or independently of the plain signs of the times.

What is right, namely repentance, as appears from the figure which follows. They ought not only to have discerned the coming of the Messiah, but thus prepared for it. Want of discernment in regard to God's dealings (‘this time') usually involves ignorance and neglect of personal duty.