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Luke 21:5-7
The Destruction of Jerusalem and the End of the World.
The beginning of the discourse:
The Destruction of Jerusalem and the End of the World.
The beginning of the discourse:
Verse Luke 21:5. _GOODLY STONES_] Or, _costly stones_. It has been thought by some that this relates not so much to the stones of which the temple was built, as to the _precious stones_ with which it...
GOODLY STONES - Beautiful stones. Either referring to the large, square, and well-finished stones of which the eastern wall was built, or to the precious stones which might have been used in decoratin...
CHAPTER 21 _ 1. The Widow's Mite. (Luke 21:1)_ 2. The Destruction of the Temple Predicted. (Luke 21:5) 3. The Disciple's Question Concerning the Future. (Luke 21:7) 4. Things to Come. ...
THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE (Mark 13*, Matthew 24*). Lk. follows Mk., though with certain modifications and amplifications. In Mt., Mk. is blended with Q, but Lk. has already used the Q material in c...
THE PRECIOUS GIFT (Luke 21:1-4)...
When some were speaking about the Temple, how it was adorned with lovely stones and offerings, Jesus said, "As for these things at which you are looking--days will come in which not one stone here wil...
OF. about. Greek. _peri._ App-104. THE TEMPLE. Greek. _hieron._ See note on Matthew 23:18. GIFTS. dedicated gifts. Greek. Plural of _anathema._ Occurs only here. Compare Josephus, _Bell. Jud._ V.. 4...
5-7. The Doom of the Temple, and the Question about the End. 5. _as some spake_ We learn from the other Evangelists that those who spoke were the Apostles, and that the question was asked as Jesus sa...
THE DOOM OF THE TEMPLE, AND THE QUESTION ABOUT THE END...
ΤΙΝΩΝ ΛΕΓΌΝΤΩΝ. The question was asked by the Apostles as Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives, perhaps gazing on the Temple as it shone in the last rays of sunset. ΛΊΘΟΙΣ ΚΑΛΟΙ͂Σ. Bevelled blocks of ston...
Ver 5. And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, 6. As for these things which you behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one...
ΛΕΓΌΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G2192) говорить. _Gen. abs._ ΆΝΑΘΉΜΑΣΙΝ _dat. pl. от_ ΑΝΆΘΗΜΑ (G334) дар, предназначенный для Бога. Относится к дорогим подношениям для богов, хранившимс...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Prediction of the Destruction of Jerusalem Scripture_ Luke 21:5-9 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and offerings, he said, 6 As for these t...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Preliminary Signs of Destruction (Luke 21:5-19) 5And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6As for these things which...
And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, Far the exposition, see the notes at Mark 13:1....
8-7 Compare Mat_24:1-3; Mar_13:1-4; Mic_3:12. 6 The present interval being an absolute secret, we must banish it from our view entirely when considering the prophetic forecast here given. It is contai...
THE WIDOW'S MITE. PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE SECOND ADVENT 1-4. The widow's mite (Mark 12:41). See on Mk....
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE SECOND ADVENT (Matthew 24:1; Mark 13:1). See on Mt. St. Luke distinguishes these two events more clearly than the other evangelists (Luke 21:24). He als...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 THE WIDOW’S *OFFERING 21:1-4 V1 Jesus looked up and watched the rich men. They dropped their money into the boxes in the *Temple. V2 He also saw a...
AND AS SOME SPAKE OF THE TEMPLE. — See Notes on Matthew 24:1; Mark 13:1, where the “some” are identified with the disciples. GOODLY STONES. — These were probably so called, either as being sculptured...
THE APOCALYPTIC DISCOURSE (Luke 21:5-38). Luke 21:5-7. _Introduction to the discourse_ (Matthew 24:1-3; Mark 13:1-4). καί τινων λεγόντων,
DAYS THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS Luke 21:5-19 When we ask speculative questions, the Master bids us take heed to _ourselves._ His predictions in this passage were literally fulfilled in the events which cul...
Here we have another illustration of the fact that nothing could escape the Master's vigilance. Of the gifts being cast into the treasury He was the true Appraiser. He saw the widow as she cast in her...
(2) And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and (a) gifts, he said, (2) The destruction of the temple is foretold so that the true spiritual building may be built, whos...
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
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 struct...
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:...
And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
_THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST_ ‘And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, He said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall...
The Lord's discourse in chapter 21 displays the character of the Gospel in a peculiar manner. The spirit of grace, in contrast with the Judaic spirit, is seen in the account of the poor widow's offeri...
AND AS SOME SPAKE OF THE TEMPLE,.... These were the disciples; Mark says, one of them; but it seems there were more than one; one might begin the discourse, and others join him: HOW IT WAS ADORNED WI...
And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: 4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cas...
_And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones_ Such as no engine now in use could have brought, or even set upon each other. Some of them (as an eye-witness who lately measur...
GOODLY STONES; great and beautiful. GIFTS; donations which had been received, and were suspended in different parts of the temple....
Destruction of Jerusalem. Matthew 24:1-22. For the principles on which this prophecy is to be interpreted, and the double reference contained in it to the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the w...
THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES (vs.1-4) The first four verses are a continuation of the sublect of Chapter 20. If the scribes had no regard for widows, God takes full account of them. Rich men may donate larg...
5-28 With much curiosity those about Christ ask as to the time when the great desolation should be. He answers with clearness and fulness, as far as was necessary to teach them their duty; for all kn...
OLBGrk; Ver. 5,6. Matthew and Mark say, that some of his disciples spake these words to him, and received this answer, as he was going out of the temple. For the GOODLY STONES which the disciples admi...
Luke 21:5 Then G2532 some G5100 spoke G3004 (G5723) of G4012 temple G2411 how G3754 adorned G2885 ...
PROPHECY CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE, THE SCATTERING OF THE JEWS, AND THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN (21:5-36). This passage connects with the last in that the disciples begin to discuss th...
THE COMING DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE (21:5-24). The destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD is now for us a simple fact of history of which today many are unaware, and most see it as almost a...
INTRODUCTORY WORDS. ‘And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and offerings, he said,' Luke is deliberately vague about where and to whom these words were spoken. He doe...
The discourse of our Lord about the last times, is here connected most closely with the prediction of the destruction of the temple (Luke 21:5-6). There is no allusion to the mount of Olives, where, a...
Luke 21:5-6. SOME. Luke is quite indefinite here. SACRED GIFTS, made for the most part by heathen: such as holy vessels by the Emperor Augustus, and others by Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, and...
Luke 21:1-4. THE WIDOW'S MITES. See on Mark 12:41-44; comp. also the introductory note to Matthew 24...
AS SOME SPAKE (τινων λεγοντων). Genitive absolute. The disciples we know from Mark 13:1; Matthew 24:1.HOW (οτ). Literally, "that."IT WAS ADORNED (κεκοσμητα). Perfect passive indicative, state of...
Luke 21:1. And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that...
CONTENTS: The widow's mite. Discourse on the course of the age and return of the Lord. CHARACTERS: Jesus, widow, disciples. CONCLUSION: As the time draws near when the Kingdom of God shall be fully e...
Luke 21:5. _Some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts._ This conversation occurred as they were going out of the temple. Mark 13:1. On mount Olivet the Lord delivered t...
WHEN WILL THIS BE? This parallels _Matthew 24._ See notes on each section at the reference in _Matthew 18_. BUT NOT A SINGLE HAIR FROM YOUR HEADS WILL BE LOST. Every Christian escaped from Jerusalem b...
_Adorned with goodly stones and gifts_ ON THE OBJECT AND USE OF THE SANCTUARY I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH CHRIST UTTERED THESE WORDS. Every attentive reader of Holy Scripture must have remarked...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 21:5 Jesus foretells the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem (vv. Luke 21:5) and the coming of the Son of Man (vv....
JESUS TELLS ABOUT THE FUTURE MATTHEW 24:1-28; MARK 13:1-23; LUKE 21:5-24; MATTHEW 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple
CHAPTER 21 VER. 18. _But there shall not an hair of your head perish._ "Because," says S. Gregory, "what was said about death was hard, comfort is added at once, from the joy of the resurrection, when...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 21:1. LOOKED UP.—From the parallel passage in Mark 12:41 we learn that our Lord had taken his seat in the court of the women, where were the chests for containing gifts and offer...
EXPOSITION LUKE 21:1 _The_ _widow_'_s mite. _We find this little sketch only here and in St. Mark (Mark 12:41). The Master was sitting—resting, probably, after the effort of the great denunciation of...
And he looked up, and he saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites (Luke 21:1-2). A mite was one-sixteenth of a penny. I...
John 2:20; Mark 13:1; Matthew 24:1...
Stones. See on Mark 13:1. Offerings [α ν α θ η μ α σ ι ν]. Only here in New Testament. From ajnatiqhmi, to set up. Hence of something set up in the temple as a votive offering. Such were the golden vi...
Goodly stones — Such as no engines now in use could have brought, or even set upon each other. Some of them (as an eye witness who lately measured them writes) were forty — five cubits long, five high...
Our blessed Saviour being now ready to depart from the temple, nevermore after this entering into it, and his disciples showing him, with wonder and admiration, the magnificent structures and building...