8. _The Widow's Alms: Luke 21:1-4_. VERS. 1-4. This piece is wanting in Matthew. Why would he have rejected it, if, according to Holtzmann's view, he had before him the document from which the other two have taken it? According to Mark (Mark 12:41-44), Jesus, probably worn out with the preceding sce... [ Continue Reading ]
1. _The Question: Luke 21:5-7_. To the preceding declaration, some of the hearers might have objected, that if only such gifts as the widow's had been made in that holy place, those magnificent structures and those rich offerings would not have existed. It was doubtless some such reflection which ga... [ Continue Reading ]
THIRD CYCLE: THE PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, LUKE 21:5-38. This piece contains a question put by the disciples (Luke 21:5-7), the discourse of Jesus in answer to their question (Luke 21:8-36), and a general view of the last days (Luke 21:37-38).... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Signs which are not such._ “ _But He said, Take heed that ye be not deceived; for many shall come in my name, saying, I am he, and the time draweth near. Go ye not therefore after them._ 9. _And when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified; for these things must first come to pas... [ Continue Reading ]
2. _The Discourse: Luke 21:8-36_. The four points treated by Jesus are: 1 _st._ The apparent signs, which must not be mistaken for true signs (Luke 21:8-19); 2 _d._ The true sign, and the destruction of Jerusalem which will immediately follow it, with the time of the Gentiles which will be connecte... [ Continue Reading ]
_The true Sign, and the Catastrophe._ “ _But when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh._ 21. _Then let them which are in Judoea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the city depart out; and let not them that are in the fields enter t... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Parousia._ “ _And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and in the earth distress of nations with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;_ 26. _Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers o... [ Continue Reading ]
It might be thought that after this saying relative to the Parousia (Luke 21:26-27), which is strictly speaking a digression, Jesus returns to the principal topic of this discourse, the destruction of Jerusalem. The expression: _your deliverance_, would then denote the emancipation of the Judeo-Chri... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Application._ “ _When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh._ 29. _And He spake to them a parable: Behold the fig-tree, and all the trees;_ 30. _When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now... [ Continue Reading ]
Here, as in chap. 12, the life of the disciples is apparently to be prolonged till the Parousia. The reason is, that that period is ever to remain the point on which the believer's heart should fix (Luke 12:36); and if, by all the generations which precede the last, this expectation is not realized... [ Continue Reading ]
3. _General View of the Situation: Luke 21:37-38_. The preceding discourse was delivered by Jesus on the Tuesday or Wednesday evening. Luke here characterizes our Lord's mode of living during the last days of His life. Αὐλίζεσθαι : to pass the night in the open air. The use of the εἰς arises from th... [ Continue Reading ]