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Matthew 24:32
Now learn a parable of the fig-tree: When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Now learn a parable of the fig-tree: When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Verse 32. _LEARN A PARABLE OF THE FIG-TREE_] That is, These signs which I have given you will be as infallible a proof of the approaching ruin of the Jewish state as the budding of the trees is a proo...
NOW LEARN A PARABLE - See the notes at Matthew 13:3. The word here means, rather, “an illustration” make a “comparison,” or judge of this as you do respecting a fig-tree. FIG-TREE - This was spoken o...
12. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE; THE KING REVEALS THE FUTURE OF THE KINGDOM. Chapter s 24-25. CHAPTER 24 1. The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. (Matthew 24:1 .) 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mat...
MATTHEW 24 F. THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE, AND THE PARABLES OF PAROUSIA (Mark 13*, Luke 21:5 *, Luke 17:23). Mt. follows Mk. fairly closely, but appends other eschatological sayings and illustrative...
"Learn the lesson which comes from the fig tree. Whenever the branch has become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you too see these things, know that he is...
THE VISION OF THINGS TO COME (Matthew 24:1-31) We have already seen that it is one of the great characteristics of Matthew that he gathers together in large blocks the teaching of Jesus about differe...
The Parable of the Fig Tree Mark 13:28-31; Luke 21:29-33 32. _learn a parable of the fig tree_ More accurately, LEARN FROM THE FIG-TREE ITS PARABLE, the lesson that the fig-tree teaches. The parable...
ἈΠῸ ΔῈ ΤΗ͂Σ ΣΥΚΗ͂Σ ΜΆΘΕΤΕ ΤῊΝ ΠΑΡΑΒΟΛΉΝ. Learn from the fig-tree its parable, the lesson that the fig-tree teaches. The parable relates to the siege of Jerusalem and the ruin of the Jewish nationality...
THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE Mark 13:28-31; Luke 21:29-33...
VER 32. "NOW LEARN A PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE; WHEN HIS BRANCH IS YET TENDER, AND PUTTETH FORTH LEAVES, YE KNOW THAT SUMMER IS NIGH: 33. SO LIKEWISE YE, WHEN YE SHALL SEE ALL THESE THINGS, KNOW THAT IT...
_SIGN CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM MATTHEW 24:15-33:_ Jesus gave a real sign for the Jews to look for as the destruction of Jerusalem approached. The real sign Jesus gave was the fulfillmen...
ΣΥΚΉ (G4808) смоковница, ΜΆΘΕΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΜΑΘΆΝΩ (G3129) учиться, ΚΛΆΔΟΣ (G2798) ветвь, ΓΈΝΗΤΑΝ _aor. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться. _Conj._ используется в indef. _t...
NOW LEARN A PARABLE OF THE FIG-TREE— Our Lord, having answered the latter part of the question proposed Matthew 24:3 proceeds in these verses to answer the former part, as to the _time_ of his coming,...
D. ENCOURAGEMENT TO BELIEVE JESUS (24:32-35) (Parallels: Mark 13:28-31; Luke 21:29-33) 32 Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves,...
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best appreh...
29-31 Compare Mar_13:24-26; Luk_21:26-27. 29 See Rev_6:12-17; Isa_13:10; Joe_2:30-31; Joe_3:15; Amo_5:20. 29 Israel goes through the great affliction, and watches for the Son of Mankind, Who will sta...
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THE END OF THE WORLD (Mark 13:8; Luke 21:7). Many of the most serious difficulties of this great discourse disappear when it is realised that our Lo...
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD FORETOLD 1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way, and his disciples,' etc. THE BUILDINGS] The magnificent...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 JESUS TELLS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE *TEMPLE 24:1-2 V1 Then Jesus left the *Temple. He was walking away when his *disciples came u...
NOW LEARN A PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE. — As in so many other instances (comp. Notes on John 8:12; John 10:1), we may think of the words as illustrated by a living example. Both time and place make this...
CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...
ἀπὸ τῆς συκῆς, etc., from the fig tree learn its parable, rapid condensed speech befitting the tense state of mind; learn from that kind of tree (article generic) the lesson it can teach with regard t...
_Parabolic close_ (Mark 13:28-32; Luke 21:29-33)....
WORDS THAT MUST BE FULFILLED Matthew 24:29-39 The preceding portion of this prophecy is by all interpreters applied to the destruction of Jerusalem. But on the portion that follows there is a consid...
Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building would be demolished so that no single stone would be left u...
(7) Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet (s) tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer [is] nigh: (7) If God has prescribed a certain order to nature, much more has...
CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
Matthew 24:32._Now learn a similitude from the fig-tree. _I do not suppose the meaning of this to be merely that, during the state of confusion which has been mentioned, there will be as evident a sig...
We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position of...
NOW LEARN A PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE,.... Take a similitude, or comparison from the fig tree, which was a tree well known in Judea; and the putting forth of its branches, leaves, and fruit, fell under...
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer _is_ nigh: Ver. 32. _Ye know that summer is nigh_] Which is so much the sweeter, beca...
_Now learn a parable of the fig-tree_ Our Lord proceeds to declare that the signs which he had given would be as certain an indication of the time of his coming, as the fig-tree's putting forth its le...
He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the w...
29-41 Christ foretells his second coming. It is usual for prophets to speak of things as near and just at hand, to express the greatness and certainty of them. Concerning Christ's second coming, it i...
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Matthew 24:32 Now G1161 learn G3129 (G5628) parable G3850 from G575 tree G4808 When G3752 its G846 branch...
WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-51). a Introduction in which Jesus declares that the Temple will be utterly destroyed (Matthew 24:...
“Now from the fig tree learn her parable. When her branch is now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near,” Jesus now illustrates the situation by means of a ‘parabl...
THEY MUST TAKE NOTE OF THE SIGNS BUT THE DATE OF HIS COMING IS UNKNOWN (24:32-36). Jesus now makes clear to them the purpose of what He has been saying. The coming events that He has been describing w...
Matthew 24:32. NOW FROM THE FIG TREE LEARN THE PARABLE, NAMELY, WHAT FOLLOWS. PUTTETH FORTH LEAVES, or ‘its leaves.' The blossoms precede the leaves, and when the leaves come, the fruit season is nea...
PUTTETH FORTH ITS LEAVES (τα φυλλα εκφυη). Present active subjunctive according to Westcott and Hort. If accented εκφυη (last syllable), it is second aorist passive subjunctive (Erasmus)....
CONTENTS: Destruction of the temple foretold. The course of the present age outlined; its culmination in the great tribulation and followed by the return of Christ in power and glory. Parable of the f...
Matthew 24:1. _The buildings of the temple._ Herod had gradually rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the second t...
LET THE FIG TREE TEACH YOU A LESSON. When the fig tree sprouts leaves, it is a sign of summer coming. WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE THINGS. The things Jesus had predicted. _But Jesus seems to say that no sig...
_Immediately after the tribulation of these days shall the sun be darkened._ THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST IN JUDGMENT I. There will be a manifestation of Christ in truth and unmistakable reality. Til...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:1 The Delay, Return, and Judgment of the Messiah. These two chapters are often called the “Olivet Discourse” because Jesus “sat on the Mount of Olives” when he spoke these w...
JESUS TELLS ABOUT HIS RETURN MATTHEW 24:29-35; MARK 13:24-31; LUKE 21:25-33; MATTHEW 24:29 Immediately after the tribulatio
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 24:34. BE FULFILLED.—The words do not necessarily imply more than the commencement of a process, the first unrolling of the scroll of the coming ages (_Plumptre_). _MAIN HOM...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 24:1 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END. ...
Now Jesus went out (Matthew 24:1), Left the house desolate. He is rejected now. They've rejected Him, now He has rejected them. Leave the house desolate; you're not going to see me again until you ar...
Luke 21:29; Luke 21:30; Mark 13:28; Mark 13:29...
A parable [τ η ν π α ρ α β ο λ η ν]. More strictly, the parable which she has to teach. Rightly, therefore, Rev., her parable. Branch [κ λ α δ ο ς]. From klaw, to break. Hence a young slip or shoot,...
Learn a parable — Our Lord having spoke of the signs preceding the two grand events, concerning which the apostles had inquired, begins here to speak of the time of them. And to the question proposed,...
Here our blessed Saviour declares two things with reference to his coming. 1. The certainty of the thing itself. 2. The uncertainty of the time. The certainty of his coming he sets forth by the simil...