Luke 21:25

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....

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 knowledge is desirable as far as it is in order to practice. Though spiritual judgements are the most common in gospel times, yet God makes use of temporal judgments also. Christ tells them what hard things they should suffer for his name's sake, and encourages them to bear up under their trials, and to go on in their work, notwithstanding the opposition they would meet with. God will stand by you, and own you, and assist you. This was remarkably fulfilled after the pouring out of the Spirit, by whom Christ gave his disciples wisdom and utterance. Though we may be losers for Christ, we shall not, we cannot be losers by him, in the end. It is our duty and interest at all times, especially in pe...

Verse 25. _THE SEA AND THE WAVES ROARING_] Figuratively pointing out the immense Roman armies by which Judea was to be overrun and destroyed....

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 did not occur in that chapter. Luke 21:9 COMMOTIONS - Insurrections. Subjects rising against their rulers. Luke 21:11 FEARFUL SIGHTS - See Matthew 24:7. Luke 21:12, Lu

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 the scribes and Pharisees—in the covered colonnade of that part of the temple which was open to the Jewish women. Here was the treasury, with its thirteen boxes in the wall, for the reception of the alms of the people. These boxes were called _shopheroth, _or trumpets, because they were shaped like trumpets, swelling out beneath, and tapering upward into a narrow mouth, or opening, into which the alms were dropped. Some of these "trumpets" were marked with special inscriptions, denoting the destination of the offerings....

AND THERE SHALL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN, AND IN THE MOON,.... They shall be darkened, and suffer very strange and surprising eclipses: AND IN THE STARS; they shall fall from heaven, as in Matthew 24:29 and so the Ethiopic version reads here: all which, as it may be understood in a literal sense, so it may likewise in figurative and mystical one, and be interpreted of the changes there should be in the Jewish state; Matthew 24:29. So the Jewish writers h interpret the sun, the light, the moon, and stars, in Ecclesiastes 12:2. By the "sun" they understand the kingdom of the house of David; by "the light", the law; by "the moon", the sanhedrim; and by the stars, the Rabbins; and the same seem to b

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 this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: for all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but like of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down._ This was literally true of the temple at Jerusalem; and today there remains nothing of it. It is also true of all earthly buildings and of all earthly things. However firm they appear to be, as though they might outlast the centuries themselves, yet the things which a

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. (Luke 21:8) 5. The Destruction of Jerusalem and the World-wide Dispersion of Israel. (Luke 21:20) 6. The Return of the Lord with Power and Great Glory. (Luke 21:25) 7. The Fig Tree and Warnings. ...

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 ch. 17. The following table shows the parallels: Luke 21. Mark 13. Matthew 24. Introduction Luke 21:5 Mark 13:1 Matthew 24:1 First Signs of the End Luke 21:8 Mark 13:5 Matthew 24:4 Persecution Luke 2

THE PRECIOUS GIFT (Luke 21:1-4)...