1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Luke 13:33 Nevertheless I must walk to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following: because it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

Nevertheless I must walk, (that is, labour in the mission, teaching, etc.) to-day, and to-morrow, etc. that is for a while. --- It cannot be that a prophet,{ Ver. 33. Quia non capit prophetam, etc. ouk endechetai, non contingit.|} etc. Not that all the prophets suffered in Jerusalem, though many did; and it is rather to prophesy, that he himself, the great Prophet, and their Messias, should be put to death at Jerusalem. (Witham)