Mark 13:7

And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. AND WHEN YE SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS, BE YE NOT TROUBLED - see the note at Mark 13:13, and compare Isaiah 8:11, FOR SUCH THINGS MUST NEEDS BE; BUT THE END SHALL NOT BE YET. In Luke (Luke 21:9), "the end is not by and by" [ eutheoos (G2112)] or 'immediately.' Worse must come before all is over....

5-13 Our Lord Jesus, in reply to the disciples' question, does not so much satisfy their curiosity as direct their consciences. When many are deceived, we should thereby be awakened to look to ourselves. And the disciples of Christ, if it be not their own fault, may enjoy holy security and peace of mind, when all around is in disorder. But they must take heed that they are not drawn away from Christ and their duty to him, by the sufferings they will meet with for his sake. They shall be hated of all men: trouble enough! Yet the work they were called to should be carried on and prosper. Though they may be crushed and borne down, the gospel cannot be. The salvation promised is more than deliverance from evil, it is everlasting blessedness....

EXPOSITION MARK 13:1 AND AS HE WENT FORTH OUT OF THE TEMPLE, ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES SAITH UNTO HIM MASTER, BEHOLD, WHAT MANNER, OF STONES AND WHAT MANNER OF BUILDINGS! This would be in the evening. According to St. Luke (Luke 21:37), our Lord, during the early part of this _week_,_ _passed his nights upon the Mount of Olives, taking his food at Bethany with Martha and Mary, and spending his days in the temple at Jerusalem, teaching the people. It is most probable that he left the temple by the golden gate on the east, from whence the view of the temple would be particularly striking. We learn from St. Matthew (Matthew 24:1.) that our Lord had just been predicting

AND WHEN YE SHALL HEAR OF WARS, AND RUMOURS OF WARS,.... Among the Jews themselves, and with the Romans: BE NOT TROUBLED; keep your place, abide by your work, go on preaching the Gospel, without distressing yourselves about the event of things: FOR [SUCH THINGS] MUST NEEDS BE: being decreed by God, foretold by Christ, and made necessary by the sins of the people: BUT THE END SHALL NOT BE YET; of the temple, of Jerusalem, and of the Jewish state and nation; Matthew 24:6....

CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Destruction of the Temple Predicted. (Mark 13:1 .Matthew 24:1; Luke 21:5)_ 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mark 13:3 .Matthew 24:3; Luke 21:7) 3. The Olivet Discourse. (Mark 13:5. Matthew 24:4; Luke 21

THE ESCHATOLOGIEAL DISCOURSE. The first two verses contain our Lord's prediction of the fall of Jerusalem. To the Jews, such an anticipation would seem blasphemous (_cf._ Acts 6:14). The discourse that follows does not explicitly develop this prophecy. For the abomination of desolation (Mark 13:14) is only a vague reference to the laying waste of Jerusalem, though it does foreshadow some signal profanation of the Temple. (The phrase comes from Daniel 9:27; Daniel 11:31 *, and means a profanation that provokes horror; _cf._ also 1Ma_1:54; 1Ma_6:7.) The subject of this, the longest speech attributed to Jesus in Mk., is the signs of the end, rat

THE THINGS TO COME (Mark 13:1-37) Mark 13:1-37 is one of the most difficult Chapter s in the New Testament for a modern reader to understand. That is because it is one of the most Jewish Chapter s in the Bible. From beginning to end it is thinking in terms of Jewish history and Jewish ideas. All through it Jesus is using categories and pictures which were very familiar to the Jews of his day, but which are very strange, and indeed, unknown, to many modern readers. Even so, it is not possible to disregard this chapter because it is the source of many ideas about the second coming of Jesus. The difficulty about the doctrine of the second coming is that nowadays people are apt either completely to disregard it or to be so completely unbalanced about it that it becomes for them practically the only d

NOT. Greek. _me._ App-105. Not the same word as in verses: Mark 13:2; Mark 13:11; Mark 13:14; Mark 2:19; Mark 2:24, Mar 2:30, Mar 2:31, Mar 2:33, Mar 2:35. BE. come to pass....

3–13. THE DISCIPLES’ QUESTIONS AND THE LORD’S ANSWER Matthew 24:3-14; Luke 21:7-19...

VER 3. AND AS HE SAT UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES OVER AGAINST THE TEMPLE, PETER AND JAMES AND JOHN AND ANDREW ASKED HIM PRIVATELY, 4. "TELL US, WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? AND WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN WHEN ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE FULFILLED?" 5. AND JESUS ANSWERING THEM BEGAN TO SAY, "TAKE HEED LEST ANY MAN DECEIVE YOU: 6. FOR MANY SHALL COME IN MY NAME, SAYING, 'I AM CHRIST;' AND SHALL DECEIVE MANY. 7. AND WHEN YE SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS, BE YE NOT TROUBLED: FOR SUCH THINGS MUST NEEDS BE; BUT THE END SHALL NOT BE YET. 8. FOR NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM: AND THERE SHALL BE EARTHQUAKES IN DIVERS PLACES, AND THERE SHALL BE FAMINES AND TROUBLES: THESE ARE THE BEGINNINGS OF SORROWS." Bede: Because the Lord, when some were praising the buildings of the temple, had plainly answered that all these were to be destroyed, the disciples privately enquir...