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The Eschatologieal Discourse. The first two verses contain our Lord's prediction of the fall of Jerusalem. To the Jews, such an anticipation would...
Heaven . the heaven. Singular. See note on Matthew 6:9 ; Matthew 6:10 .
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away - the...
Great Prophecy of the Fall of Jerusalem and of the End of the World 1-37. Christ's great prophecy ( Matthew 24:1 ; Luke 21:5 ). See on Mt.
(24-31) But in those days. — See Notes on Matthew 24:29-35 .
“Watch!” Mark 13:14-37 The fall of Jerusalem, Mark 13:14-23 . This abomination had been predicted by Daniel, Daniel 9:27 , Josephus says t...
A casual remark from the lips of one of the disciples drew from Jesus words full of solemnity and full of hope. This stately building was to be destr...
(28) Now learn a parable of the fig tree: When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: (29) So, ye in like m...
Heaven and earth shall pass away ,.... Which may be understood either affirmatively, as what will be at the second coming of Christ; or comparativel...
But in those days Of vengeance; after that tribulation Attending the siege and taking of Jerusalem; the sun shall be darkened, &c. Our Lord...
Watchfulness Inculcated. 28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch...
The Advancement of the Kingly Rule of God In The Midst Of The Battering of History: Preliminary Troubles - The Good News Proclaimed Among All Nation...
Certainty and Uncertainty (13:28-32). Jesus now points to what is certain and what is uncertain. Certain is the fulfilling of all that He has desc...
The Disciples Are To Watch For His Coming (13:28-37). Jesus now stressed the inevitability of ‘these things' that He has described as needing to h...
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.” Once again we are pulled up with a jolt by what seems a simple statement. Who is...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Mark 13:14 . The abomination of desolation .—Hebraism for the abomination that makes desolate . See Daniel 9:27...
Mark 13:31 Things Temporal and Things Eternal. I. First, our Lord declares to us, "Heaven and earth shall pass away." By heaven and earth are mea...
Mark 13:2 . There shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. When the Chaldeans burned the temple, that part called...
But My words shall not pass away. The perpetuity of Christ’s words Contrast the apparent transitoriness of “words” with the solid earth and the...
EXPOSITION Mark 13:1 And as he went forth out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him Master, behold, what manner, of stones a...
The parable of the fig-tree:
Heaven and earth shall pass away; but My words shall not pass away. In the matter of the proper state of preparedness against the coming of the Lo...
2 Peter 3:10-12 ; 2 Timothy 2:13 ; Hebrews 1:10-12 ; Isaiah 40:8 ; Isaiah 51:6 ; Joshua 23:14 ; Joshua 23:15 ; Luke 21:33 ; Matthew 24:35 ;...
31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.