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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Mark 13

Mark 13:1

MARK CHAPTER 13 MARK 13:1,2 Christ foretells the destruction of the temple, MARK 13:3 shows what signs and calamities should go before, MARK 13:24 and what should happen at the time of his coming, MARK 13:32 no man knoweth the day or hour; we must therefore watch and pray, that we may not be found u... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:3

Ver. 3,4. Matthew puts two things more into the question, _What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?_ The best of men have a great curiosity to know futurities, things that shall hereafter come to pass. All the other part of this chapter is spent by our Saviour in an answer... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:5

Ver. 5,6. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:4". SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:5". This is the first sign, fulfilled before the destruction of Jerusalem in part, and which had been fulfilling ever since; and probably before the day of judgment the number of such impostors will increase.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:7

Ver. 7,8. Matthew adds _pestilences._ Luke saith, _pestilences, and fearful sights and great signs from heaven._ SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:6", and following verses to MATTHEW 24:8. Here are two or three more signs put together: 1. _Wars, and rumours of wars; _ great commotions in nations, which thoug... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:9

This, so far as concerneth those to whom Christ spake, can only be a sign of the destruction of Jerusalem; but so far as it concerneth others, it is also a sign of the end of the world. It is the fifth sign he gives them; the persecution of the ministers of Christ and the saints of God, for the prea... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:10

I am prone to think that our Lord gives this not only as a sign of the destruction of Jerusalem, but of the end of the world, and the latter principally; for before the destruction of Jerusalem (which was in less than forty years after Christ's death) the gospel was not preached to _all nations, _ o... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:11

SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:19". SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:20". By TAKE NO THOUGHT, he means, take no anxious thoughts to disquiet yourselves.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:12

Ver. 12,13. This is but an amplification of the fifth sign, given us MARK 13:9, viz. a furious persecution, eminently made good in the Jewish persecution before the destruction of Jerusalem; in the pagan persecution, for three hundred years after Christ; and in the popish persecutions at this day. S... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:14

Ver. 14-20. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:15", and following verses to MATTHEW 24:22, where we have before opened all these passages. This sign doth manifestly relate to the destruction of Jerusalem, and can have no relation to the end of the world. In our notes on MATTHEW 24:13, we have showed what is m... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:21

Ver. 21-23. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:23", and following verses to MATTHEW 24:25. The history of Josephus, and those Roman historians who wrote the history of those times that went immediately before the destruction of Jerusalem, and give us account of the taking of that city, are the best commentary... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:24

Ver. 24-27. The usage of these phrases, of the darkening the sun and the moon, and the falling of the stars, to signify the ruin of nations, and changes wrought in them; as in ISAIAH 13:10, as to the destruction of Babylon, and EZEKIEL 32:7, to express the change the providence of God made by the de... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:28

Ver. 28-31. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:32", and following verses to MATTHEW 24:35, where we met with the same things almost word for word; so as more words need not be repeated here in the explication of these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:32

Ver. 32,33. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:36". SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:42". _Ideo latet ultimus dies ut observentur omnes dies, _ God hath concealed from us the knowledge of the last day that we might watch all our days. See the notes on Matthew, in what sense Christ saith he did not know the last day a... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:34

Ver. 34-37. In the Greek, those words, FOR THE SON OF MAN IS, are not, but those, or some such like, are necessarily to be understood to make up the sense. The watching here again twice called for is the same with that before mentioned. The sense of these verses is the same as before; the uncertaint... [ Continue Reading ]

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