Luke 21:5

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 sat on the Mount of Olives opposite to the Temple, perhaps gazing on it as it shone in the last rays of sunset.

with goodly stones bevelled blocks of stone, of which some are described as having been forty cubits long and ten high; double cloisters; monolithic columns; alternate slabs of red and white marble, &c. See Jos. B. J.v. 5 and Bab. Succa,f. 51, 1.

and gifts Rather, sacred offerings (Psalms 62), such as the golden chain of Agrippa; gifts of Ptolemy Philadelphus, Augustus, Helen of Adiabene, and crowns, shields, goblets, &c.; the golden vine with its vast clusters given by Herod. (Jos. B. j.v. 5, § 4. See 2Ma 5:16; and Jos. Antt.xiii. 3, xv. 11, § 3.) Hence Tacitus calls it "a temple of immense opulence," Hist.Luke 5:8.