Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 24:36
But of that day — The day of judgment; Knoweth no man — Not while our Lord was on earth. Yet it might be afterward revealed to St. John consistently with this.
But of that day — The day of judgment; Knoweth no man — Not while our Lord was on earth. Yet it might be afterward revealed to St. John consistently with this.
MATTHEW 24:36 ouvde. o` ui`o,j {B} The words “neither the Son” are lacking in the majority of the witnesses of Matthew, including the later Byzantine text. On the other hand, the best representatives...
Verse 36. _BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR_] ωρα, here, is translated _season_ by many eminent critics, and is used in this sense by both sacred and profane authors. As the _day_ was not known, in which Jer...
BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR - Of the precise time of the fulfillment. The “general signs” of its approach have been given, as the budding of the fig-tree is a certain indication that summer is near; but...
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...
"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...
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...
OF. concerning. Greek. _p_ eri. App-104. knoweth. has any intuitive knowledge. Greek. _oida._ The same word as in verses: Matthew 24:42; Matthew 24:43 ("known"); not the same as in verses: Matthew 24:...
End of Ch. 25. Parables and Teachings concerning the Second Advent 36 51. The Coming of Christ; the Need of Watchfulness More briefly reported in Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36. 36. _But of that day a...
After οὐρανῶν Lachmann and Tischendorf add οὐδὲ ὁ υἱός. The reading is supported by א B D, many cursives and Latin codices, but is probably an insertion from Mark. 36. ΤΗ͂Σ ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ἘΚΕΊΝΗΣ. The Day of...
THE COMING OF CHRIST; THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS More briefly reported in Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36...
Ver 36. "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 37. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38. For as in the day...
_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...
ΟΝΔΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._...
BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN— The word Ωρα, is of a larger signification than _hour;_ and besides, it seems somewhat improper to say, _of that day and hour knoweth no man;_ for if the _day_...
III. CHRIST'S SECOND COMING (24:36-25:46) A. The Date Known but to God (24:36) (Parallel: Mark 13:32) 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but...
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...
BUT OF THAT DAY] i.e. the Day of Judgment. NOT THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN] RV adds, 'neither the Son,' which, however, RM omits: see on Mark 13:32. 40, 41. The general idea is that, though to human eyes th...
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...
NO, NOT THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN. — St. Mark’s addition (Mark 13:32), “neither the Son” — or better, _not even the Son_ — is every way remarkable. Assuming, what is well-nigh certain (see _Introduction to...
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...
περὶ δὲ τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκείνης καὶ τῆς ὥρας, of that day and hour. The reference is to the coming of the Son of Man, the expression throughout the N. T. having the value of an “indisputable fixed _terminu...
_Parabolic close_ (Mark 13:28-32; Luke 21:29-33)....
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...
(9) But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. (9) It is sufficient for us to know that God has appointed a latter day for the restoring of all thing...
No man knoweth... but the Father alone. The words in St. Mark (xiii. 32.) are still harder: neither the angels, nor the Son, but the Father. The Arians objected this place, to shew that Christ being i...
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
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." I desire to look at this verse singly, from the abuses made of it by the enemies to the Godhead of Christ....
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...
36._But of that day and hour. _By this sentence, Christ intended to hold the minds of believers in suspense that they might not, by a false imagination, fix any time for the final redemption. We know...
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...
BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN,.... Which is to be understood, not of the second coming of Christ, the end of the world, and the last judgment; but of the coming of the son of man, to take ve...
But of that day and hour knoweth no _man_, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Ver. 36. _But of that day and hour knoweth no man_] That the Lord will come it is _certo certius, _ not mo...
_But of that day and hour knoweth no man_, &c. I consider ωρα, _hour_, here, says Grotius, as denoting, not a part of a day, but a larger portion of time. So also Bishop Newton, who observes, “It woul...
THAT DAY; the day of "The coming of the Son of man," ver Matthew 24:37; 2Ti 1:12; 2 Timothy 1:18. Christ did not tell them when it would be, and none but God know. He warned them to be prepared for it...
The time of Judgment Day:...
BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN, NO, NOT THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN, BUT MY FATHER ONLY....
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...
Mark addeth, MARK 13:32, _neither the Son, but the Father. Of that day and hour, _ that is, the particular time when the heavens and the earth shall pass away, as he had before said, or when the end o...
Tertullian Against Praxeas and slain by the husbandmen, and avenged by the Father. He is also ignorant of the last day and hour, which is known to the Father only.[377]...
Matthew 24:36 But G1161 of G4012 that G1565 day G2250 and G2532 hour G5610 one G3762 knows G1492 ...
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:...
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...
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.” For of the time of His coming no one knows apart from the Father. It is not even known to the...
Matthew 24:36. BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO ONE, NOT EVEN THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN. The best authorities add: neither the Son, as in Mark 13:32. This is implied also in the phrase: but the FATHER O...
NOT EVEN THE SON (ουδε ο υιος). Probably genuine, though absent in some ancient MSS. The idea is really involved in the words "but the Father only" (ε μη ο πατηρ μονος). It is equally clear that in...
ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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...
NO ONE KNOWS, HOWEVER. Anyone who sets a date for Christ to come, cannot be telling the truth! Even the Son does not know when this will be. [The time factor here is the End of the World.]...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:36 NO ONE KNOWS, NOT EVEN... THE SON, BUT THE FATHER ONLY. In his life on earth, Jesus learned things as other human beings learn them (see Luke 2:52;
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...
Jesus tells about his return Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36; Luke 12:39-46;...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 24:36_ The uncertainty of the end.—We ought to know the season, we cannot know the moment, of the “appearing” of Christ. So the Saviour teaches us here. “Of...
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 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Peter 3:10; Acts 1:7; Matthew 24:42; Matthe