For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. The departure and the future return: you will not see me again until you say blessed is he who comes — the Psalm 118:26 Hosanna that the crowd shouted at the triumphal entry. The until communicates the eschatological hope: the seeing will come again, when the generation that rejected him welcomes him as the crowd of the triumphal entry did. Romans 11:25–26 holds the same hope: Israel's partial hardening will end when the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

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