Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away ... - You may sooner expect to see the heaven and earth pass away and return to nothing, than my words to fail.
Heaven and earth shall pass away ... - You may sooner expect to see the heaven and earth pass away and return to nothing, than my words to fail.
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...
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...
"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...
WORDS. Plural of _logos._ See note on Mark 9:32....
This verse was originally omitted in the Sinaitic MS., but is inserted by a later hand....
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...
_THIS GENERATION SHALL NOT PASS MATTHEW 24:34-44_ : Jesus said you can use leaves coming on a fig tree to know that summer is near. He used that illustration to let the people know that the desolation...
ΠΑΡΕΛΕΎΣΕΤΑΝ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΑΡΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, ΠΑΡΈΛΘΩΣΝΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΠΑΡΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ. Отсутствие гармонии в отношениях между небесами и землей может привести к завершению настоящего века. ...
HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY— It seems as if our Saviour had been aware of some such misapplication of his words, as is intimated in the preceding note, by adding yet greater force and emphasis to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
HEAVEN AND EARTH. — The tone is that of One who speaks with supreme authority, foreseeing, on the one hand, death and seeming failure, but on the other, the ultimate victory, not of truth only in the...
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...
_Parabolic close_ (Mark 13:28-32; Luke 21:29-33)....
eclaration similar to that in chap. Matthew 5:18 concerning the validity of the law....
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...
(8) Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (8) The Lord now begins the judgment, which he will finish in the latter days....
_ Shall pass away: because they shall be charged at the end of the world into a new heaven and new earth. (Challoner)_...
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...
_ABIDING WORDS_ ‘Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.’ Matthew 24:34 We kno...
35_Heaven and earth shall pass away. _In order to secure greater confidence in his statements, he illustrates their certainty by this comparison, that it is more firm and stable than the entire struct...
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...
HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY,.... This is either an assertion, which will be true at the end of time; not as to the substance of the heavens and earth, which will always remain, but as to the qual...
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Ver. 35. _Heaven and earth shall pass, &c._] What God hath written he hath written. His word is established in heaven, saith David,...
_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...
HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY. Even as the person with ordinary common sense and powers of observation needs no further evidence for the fact that summer is near w...
The lesson of the fig-tree:...
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...
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...
1 Clement When and as He pleases He will do all things, and none of the things determined by Him shall pass away.[111] Tertullian Against Hermogenes nay, it shall come to nothing along with the ear...
Matthew 24:35 Heaven G3772 and G2532 earth G1093 away G3928 (G5695) but G1161 My G3450 words G3056 means...
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.” And all that He has said is more certain and sure than the continuation of Heaven and earth. We learn here Jesus' awareness both tha...
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...
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:...
Matthew 24:35. HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY. Not merely a strong asseveration (sooner shall heaven and earth pass away), but also a plain declaration that they shall pass away. Comp. Psalms 102:26...
Matthew 24:35 The Immutability of the Divine Word. When the words of the text were uttered the eye of the Saviour was resting on scenes whose stability promised to be of world-long life. The hills ro...
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...
HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY. Even though Creation will vanish, everything Christ says will still remain true....
_But My words shall not pass away._ THE WORDS OF CHRIST The characteristics of our Lord’s words. 1. The authority which speaks in them. 2. Their elevation. 3. Their awful depth. (_Canon Liddon._)...
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...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:35 MY WORDS WILL NOT PASS AWAY. Jesus’ teaching has divine authority and permanence. It is greater even than HEAVEN AND EARTH....
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...
1 Peter 1:25; 2 Peter 3:7; Hebrews 1:11; Hebrews 1:12; Isaiah 34:4;...