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 especially the magnificent golden vine presented by Herod the Great, and described by Josephus. The disciples, as it were, became the intercessors for the doomed sanctuary, and pointed to these things, which fulfilled Old Testament prophecy (Psalms 72; Isaiah 60) in regard to gifts from heathen princes, as a ground for hope that the temple would continue.

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Old Testament