MATTHEW CHAPTER 24 MATTHEW 24:1,2 Christ foretells the destruction of the temple. MATTHEW 24:3 He showeth what signs and calamities shall go before it; and what shall happen at the time of his coming. MATTHEW 24:32 By a parable of the fig tree he marketh the certainty of the prediction. MATTHEW 24:3... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 1,2. Mark saith, MARK 13:1,2, _one of his disciples._ Luke saith, LUKE 21:5, _some._ Mark saith, the disciple said, _Master, what manner of stones and what buildings are here!_ Luke saith, they spake how the temple _was adorned with goodly stones and gifts._ All three evangelists agree in the s... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 3,4. Mark saith, MARK 13:3, _And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled? And Jesus answering them began to say,... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark hath the same, MARK 13:6 Luke saith, LUKE 21:8, _Many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not after them._ Our Saviour seemeth to have given this as a sign common both to the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world, though possibly before the d... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 6-8. Mark hath the same, MARK 13:7,8. Luke hath also much the same, LUKE 21:9, only he addeth, _fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven._ Interpreters think this prophecy did chiefly respect the destruction of Jerusalem, for the time from our Saviour's death to that time was f... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark hath this thus, MARK 13:9, _But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them._ Luke saith, LUKE 21:12,13, _But before all these, they shall... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark saith, MARK 13:12,13, _The brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake._ Luke saith, LUKE 21:16,17, _And ye shall be betrayed both by p... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 11,12. Here are two signs more given: 1. The abounding of false teachers. 2. The abatements of Christians zeal, and love to God. For the matter of MATTHEW 24:11, SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:23" and SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:24", where we shall meet with it more fully. By the aboundings of iniquity... [ Continue Reading ]
We have the same MARK 13:13. We also met with it before, MATTHEW 10:22. It is a promise to perseverance, especially to such perseverance as is joined with fortitude. He that shall not be tempted to apostasy through the afflictions of the gospel, but shall patiently and courageously endure all the su... [ Continue Reading ]
So saith Mark, MARK 13:10. Some think that _the end_ mentioned in the close of this verse refers to the destruction of Jerusalem; others, that it refers to the day of judgment. If we take _world_ (as it is often taken) for the Gentiles in opposition to the Jews, synecdochically, the whole being put... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark saith, MARK 13:14, _standing where it ought not._ Here are two questions: 1. What is here meant by THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION. 2. What text in Daniel our Lord refers to. As to the latter, there are three places in Daniel which mention it: DANIEL 9:27, _for the overspreading of abominations,... [ Continue Reading ]
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Mark hath this, MARK 13:14. Luke saith, LUKE 21:21, _Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countriest enter thereinto._ The import of all this is no more than, Let every man with as much speed as... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 19,20. Mark saith nothing of the sabbath day, MARK 13:1. Luke hath not what Matthew hath, MATTHEW 24:20. WOE TO THEM in this text is only a phrase testifying our Saviour's compassion on such, and indicative of the addition it would make to their misery, as it would retard their flight. Upon thi... [ Continue Reading ]
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Mark hath the same in effect, MARK 13:19,20. Luke speaks more particularly, LUKE 21:23,24. _For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 23-26. Mark hath much the same, MATTHEW 13:21. There is no doubt but that our Saviour here hath a special respect to those persons who, about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, taking advantage of the Jewish expectation of the Messiah as a secular prince, who should restore them to liber... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 27,28. Luke hath much the same, LUKE 17:24,37. The disagreement of interpreters about _the coming of the Son of man, _ here spoken of, makes a variety in their interpretation of these verses. Some think the coming of the Son of man here spoken of was his coming to destroy Jerusalem, which, he s... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark saith, MARK 13:24,25. _In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken._ Luke saith, LUKE 21:25,26 _And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 30,31. Mark saith, MARK 13:26,27, _And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven._ Luke sait... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 32-35. Mark hath the very same, MARK 13:28. So hath Luke, LUKE 21:29, only he saith, _the fig tree, and all the trees, when they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom o... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark addeth, MARK 13:32, _neither the Son, but the Father. Of that day and hour, _ that is, the particular time when the heavens and the earth shall pass away, as he had before said, or when the end of the world shall be, which was one of the questions propounded to him by his disciples, MATTHEW 24:... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 37-39. Luke hath much the same, LUKE 17:26,27, where he also saith, it shall be as _in the days of Lot; _ but I shall consider what he saith, which seemeth spoken at another time, and upon another occasion, when I come to his seventeenth chapter. Two things our Saviour seemeth here to teach us:... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 40,41. Some refer this to the coming of Christ in his kingdom of grace; some: to his coming in the day of judgment: it is true of both those comings. God shows the freeness of his grace much in the conversion of sinners, and makes discriminations of which we can give no account, as he tells us,... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 42-44. Mark saith, MARK 13:33, _Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is._ What our Lord here meaneth by watching is easily gathered, as well by what went before, where our Saviour had been speaking of the security and luxury of the old world, as by what followeth, MATTHEW... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 45,46. We have much the same, LUKE 12:42, whether spake at the same time, and upon the same occasion, or no, I know not. It is said there, LUKE 12:41, that Peter gave occasion to this discourse, by saying, _Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?_ Our Saviour replies as here,... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 47-51. Luke hath much of this, LUKE 12:45,46: _But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the men servants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an... [ Continue Reading ]