Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 21:31
The kingdom of God is nigh — The destruction of the Jewish city, temple, and religion, to make way for the advancement of my kingdom.
The kingdom of God is nigh — The destruction of the Jewish city, temple, and religion, to make way for the advancement of my kingdom.
Verse 31. _THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NIGH AT HAND._] After the destruction of the Jewish state, the doctrine of Christ crucified shall be preached every where, and every where prevail....
The account of the destruction of Jerusalem contained in this chapter has been fully considered in the notes at Matthew 24. All that will be necessary here will be an explanation of a few words that d...
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)...
And there will be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on earth the nations will be in distress and will not know what to do in the roaring of the sea and of the wave, while men's hearts will swoon...
SO LIKEWISE YE. so ye also. COME. coming. THE KINGDOM OF GOD. See App-114....
ΓΙΝΌΜΕΝΑ. ‘_Coming_.’...
PARABLE OF THE FIG-TREE. DUTY OF WATCHFULNESS...
Ver 28. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh. 29. And he spoke to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; 3...
ΪΔΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act., см._ Luke 21:29. _Conj._ с ΌΤΑΝ (G3752) в indef. _temp. прид._ ΓΙΝΌΜΕΝΑ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (adj.)_, _см._ Luke 21:7. _Praes._ указывает, что событие произойдет в то врем...
DISCOURSE: 1572 THE BUDDING FIG-TREE Luke 21:29. _And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig-tree, and all the trees; when they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Instruction About The Destruction of Jerusalem Scripture_ Luke 21:28-32 But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption dr...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Precise Signs of Destruction (Luke 21:20-32) 20But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. 21Then let those who are in J...
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...
(25-33) AND THERE SHALL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN. — See Notes on Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24, where the “signs” are defined as the “sun being darkened, and the moon not giving her light.” DISTRESS OF NATIONS...
KNOW YE THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NIGH AT HAND. — St. Luke’s paraphrase fills up and explains what stands in St. Matthew and St. Mark more simply, “It is near, even at the doors.”...
ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ, explaining the elliptical but not obscure words in Mt. and Mk.: “(it) is near,” _i.e._, the coming of the Son of man. For Lk. that is one with the coming of the Kingdom, which aga...
_Parabolic enforcement of the lesson_ (Matthew 24:32-35; Mark 13:28-31)....
THE NEED OF CONSTANT WATCHFULNESS Luke 21:29-38 The summer of the world is yet before us! _This_ is but the springtide, when the seeds are beginning to sprout, but the winds are cold. Ah, halcyon da...
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...
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
_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 al...
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:...
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...
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...
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and...
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 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...
SO LIKEWISE WHEN YE SEE THESE THINGS COME TO PASS,.... The signs before mentioned, in Luke 21:8. KNOW YE THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NIGH AT HAND: a more visible and glorious display of the kingdom of...
Luke 21:31. "And in the day-times He was teaching in the temple; and at night He went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives." By this it is evident that Christ was commonly wo...
_Behold the fig-tree_ Christ spake this in the spring, just before the passover; when all the trees were budding on the mount of Olives, where they then were. _When they now shoot forth, ye know of yo...
Signs of Christ's coming-parable of the fig-tree. For the exposition of these verses and their twofold reference, see notes on Matthew 24:29-35....
The comfort of the believers:...
SO LIKEWISE YE, WHEN YE SEE THESE THINGS COME TO PASS, KNOW YE THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NIGH AT HAND....
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...
29-38 Christ tells his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by. He charges them to look upon the ruin of the Jewish nation as near. Yet this race and family of Abraham...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 21:29...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV "So likewise ye, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand."[1564] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh "S...
Luke 21:31 So G3779 you G5210 also G2532 when G3752 see G1492 (G5632) things G5023 happening G1096 ...
“Even so you also, when you see these things coming about, know you that the Kingly Rule of God is near.” So in the same way when they see all ‘these things' coming about they are to know that the Kin...
CONCLUDING WORDS (21:29-38). Jesus now sums up the conclusions which result from what He has been saying. In His summing up He stresses the signs that will indicate the ‘nearness' of the Kingly Rule...
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...
Luke 21:25-33. THE SIGNS OF THE COMING OF THE END. See on the paragraph in general, the notes on Matthew 24:29-35; Mark 13:24-31. The only variations are in the signs mentioned in...
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...
COMING TO PASS (γινομενα). Present middle participle of γινομα and so descriptive of the process.NIGH (εγγυς). The consummation of the kingdom is here meant, not the beginning....
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...
_Behold the fig-tree and all the trees_ THE PARABLE OF THE FIG-TREE I. TEACHING OF THE PARABLE. 1. Shows course and sequence of events as certain and necessary as the processes of nature. All is in...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 21:31 SO ALSO introduces the reality to which the fig tree analogy of vv. Luke 21:29 points. THESE THINGS refers to the second
JESUS TELLS ABOUT HIS RETURN MATTHEW 24:29-35; MARK 13:24-31; LUKE 21:25-33; MATTHEW 24:29 Immediately after the tribulatio
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 21:7. AND THEY ASKED HIM.—St. Mark tells us (Luke 13:3) that the questioners were the apostles Peter, John, James and Andrew. The discourse that follows is related by the two fir...
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...
1 Peter 4:7; Hebrews 10:37; James 5:9; Luke 12:51; Matthew 16:1...
Come to pass [γ ι ν ο μ ε ν α]. The present participle. Rev., more correctly, "coming to pass :" in process of fulfilment. Compare Mark 13:29....