Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 21:8
I am the Christ; and the time is near — When I will deliver you from all your enemies. They are the words of the seducers.
I am the Christ; and the time is near — When I will deliver you from all your enemies. They are the words of the seducers.
Verse Luke 21:8. _MANY SHALL COME IN MY NAME_] Usurping my name: calling themselves the Messiah. See Matthew 24:5. Concerning this prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem, and its literal accompli...
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)...
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...
AND HE SAID, &c. See App-155. TAKE HEED. Greek. _blepo._ App-133. NOT. Greek. _me._ App-105. DECEIVED. misled. FOR MANY, &c. This was speedily fulfilled. It was the first sign as to "when" (Luke 2...
8-27. Signs of the End. 8. _Take heed that ye be not deceived_ A danger incurred even by the elect. Matthew 24:24. The moral key-notes of this great Discourse of the Last. Things (Eschatology) are Be...
SIGNS OF THE END...
ΟὟΝ is omitted by אBDLX La[355] Ti[356] [355] La. Lachmann. [356] Ti. Tischendorf. 8. ΜῊ ΠΛΑΝΗΘΗ͂ΤΕ. A danger incurred even by the elect. Matthew 24:24. The moral key-notes of this great Discourse o...
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...
ΒΛΈΠΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) видеть, наблюдать. _Praes. imper._ призывает к постоянной бдительности, ΠΛΑΝΗΘΉΤΕ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΠΛΑΝΆΩ (G4105) обманывать, сбивать с пути; _pass._...
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...
(7-19) MASTER, BUT WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? — See Notes on Matthew 24:3; Mark 13:3. St. Luke omits the Mount of Olives as being the scene of the question and the prophecy, and the names of the ques...
Saying, I am Christ. — Literally, _I am._ The italics show that the word “Christ” is an interpolation. The sentence is better left in the vagueness of the original, or with only a pronoun as the predi...
_Signs prelusive of the end_ (Matthew 24:4-8; Mark 13:5-11). βλέπετε, etc., take heed that ye be not _deceived_. This the keynote not to tell when, but to protect disciples from delusions and terrors....
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...
And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come (b) in my name, saying, I am [Christ]; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. (b) Using my name....
In my name. They shall not say that they belong to me, or that I sent them: but they shall take to themselves my name, viz. Christ, or Messias, which title is incommunicable to any but myself. In effe...
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 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...
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...
And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. But when ye shall hear of wars and commo...
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...
AND HE SAID, TAKE HEED THAT YE BE NOT DECEIVED,.... With false Christs, and false prophets: FOR MANY SHALL COME IN MY NAME; making use of his name, taking it to them; not that they would pretend they...
And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am _Christ_; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. Ver. 8. See Matthew 24:4,5, &c....
_They asked him, When shall these things be_, &c. All the particulars in these verses are noticed and explained, Matthew 24:3, and Mark 13:3....
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...
Tokens of the end:...
AND HE SAID, TAKE HEED THAT YE BE NOT DECEIVED; FOR MANY SHALL COME IN MY NAME, SAYING, I AM CHRIST; AND THE TIME DRAWETH NEAR; GO YE NOT THEREFORE AFTER THEM....
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:4", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:5", SEE POOLE ON "MARK 13:5", and SEE POOLE ON "MARK 13:6". This happened, and was abun
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV ) comes in a name which belongs to another-unless it was his business to warn off from a mendaciously assumed name the disciples (of One) who, by reason of His name...
Luke 21:8 And G1161 said G2036 (G5627) heed G991 (G5720) not G3361 deceived G4105 (G5686) For...
VIOLENT POLITICAL EVENTS AND NATURAL CATASTROPHES WILL NOT BE SIGNS OF THE COMING DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE, NOR OF THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN (21:8-11). Despite the warning of these verses each suc...
‘And he said, “Take heed that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he', and, ‘The time is at hand', do not go after them.” ' The first thing that His people will have t...
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...
Luke 21:8-11. THE OPENING WARNING. See on Matthew 24:4-8; Mark 13:5-8. The varia tions are slight: AND THE TIME (_i.e.,_ of the kingdom) IS AT HAND ...
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...
THAT YE BE NOT LED ASTRAY (μη πλανηθητε). First aorist passive subjunctive with μη (lest). This verb πλαναω occurs here only in Luke though often in the rest of the N.T. (as Matthew 24:4; Matthew 24...
AND HE SAID See note on the OLIVET DISCOURSE. (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 24:3). _...
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...
_Master, but when shall these things be?_ JUDAISM OVERTHROWN I. THE MASTER’S WARNING CONCERNING FALSE CHRISTS. 1. Many will assume the daring _role. _ (1) Some saying, “I am Christ.” (2) Others s...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 21:7 WHEN WILL THESE THINGS BE, AND WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN? See notes on Matt. 24:3; Mark 13:4....
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 21:7. 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 John 4:1; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 John 1:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:3;...
Deceived. Rev., rightly, led astray. See on Matthew 24:4. In my name. See on Matthew 18:5....
Observe here, Christ does not gratify his disciples' curiosity, but acquaints them with their present duty; namely, to watch against deceivers and seducers, who should have the impudence to affirm the...