Chapter 21:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mark John
Luke 21
Verse 1. He looked up - From those on whom his eyes were fixed
before. Mark xii, 41.
Verse
5. Goodly stones - Such as no engines now in use could have
brought, or even set upon each other. Some of them (as an eye
witness who lately measured them writes) were forty - five cubits
long, five high, and six broad; yet brought thither from another
country. And gifts - Which persons delivered from imminent
dangers had, in accomplishment of their vows, hung on the walls
and pillars. The marble of the temple was so white, that it
appeared like a mountain of snow at a distance. And the gilding of
many parts made it, especially when the sun shone, a most
splendid and beautiful spectacle. Matt. xxiv, 1; Mark xiii, 1.
Verse
8. I am the Christ; and the time is near - When I will deliver you
from all your enemies. They are the words of the seducers.
Verse
9. Commotions - Intestine broils; civil wars.
Verse
11. Fearful sights and signs from heaven - Of which Josephus
gives a circumstantial account.
Verse
12. Mark xiii, 9.
Verse
13. It shall turn to you for a testimony - Of your having delivered
your own souls, and of their being without excuse.
Verse
16. Matt. x, 21.
Verse
17. Matt. xxiv, 13; Mark xiii, 13.
Verse
18. Not a hair of your head - A proverbial expression, shall perish
- Without the special providence of God. And then, not before the
time, nor without A full reward.
Verse
19. In your patience possess ye your souls - Be calm and serene,
masters of yourselves, and superior to all irrational and
disquieting passions. By keeping the government of your spirits,
you will both avoid much misery, and guard the better against all
dangers.
Verse
21. Let them that are in the midst of it - Where Jerusalem stands
(that is, they that are in Jerusalem) depart out of it, before their
retreat is cut off by the uniting of the forces near the city, and let
not them that are in the adjacent countries by any means enter into
it.
Verse
22. And things which are written - Particularly in Daniel.
Verse
24. They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away
captive - Eleven hundred thousand perished in the siege of
Jerusalem, and above ninety thousand were sold for slaves. So
terribly was this prophecy fulfilled! And Jerusalem shall be
trodden by the Gentiles - That is, inhabited. So it was indeed. The
land was sold, and no Jew suffered even to come within sight of
Jerusalem. The very foundations of the city were ploughed up,
and a heathen temple built where the temple of God had stood.
The times of the Gentiles - That is, the times limited for their
treading the city; which shall terminate in the full conversion of
the Gentiles.
Verse
25. And there shall be - Before the great day, which was typified
by the destruction of Jerusalem: signs - Different from those
mentioned in ver. 11. Matt. xxiv, 29; Mark xiii, 24.
Verse
28. Now when these things - Mentioned ver. 8, 10, &c., begin to
come to pass, look up with firm faith, and lift up your heads with
joy: for your redemption out of many troubles draweth nigh, by
God's destroying your implacable enemies.
Verse
29. Behold the fig tree and all the trees - Christ spake this in the
spring, just before the passover; when all the trees were budding
on the mount of Olives, where they then were.
Verse
30. Ye know of yourselves - Though none teach you.
Verse
31. The kingdom of God is nigh - The destruction of the Jewish
city, temple, and religion, to make way for the advancement of
my kingdom.
Verse
32. Till all things be effected - All that has been spoken of the
destruction of Jerusalem, to which the question, ver. 7, relates:
and which is treated of from ver. 8-24.
Verse
34. Take heed, lest at any time your hearts be overloaded with
gluttony and drunkenness - And was there need to warn the
apostles themselves against such sins as these? Then surely there
is reason to warn even strong Christians against the very grossest
sins. Neither are we wise, if we think ourselves out of the reach of
any sin: and so that day - Of judgment or of death, come upon
you, even you that are not of this world-Unawares. Matt. xxiv, 42;
Mark xiii, 33; Luke xii, 35.
Verse
35. That sit - Careless and at ease.
Verse
36. Watch ye therefore - This is the general conclusion of all that
precedes. That ye may be counted worthy - This word sometimes
signifies an honour conferred on a person, as when the apostles
are said to be counted worthy to suffer shame for Christ, Acts v,
41. Sometimes meet or becoming: as when John the Baptist
exhorts, to bring fruits worthy of repentance, chap. iii, 8. And so
to be counted worthy to escape, is to have the honour of it, and to
be fitted or prepared for it. To stand - With joy and triumph: not to
fall before him as his enemies.
Verse
37. Now by day - In the day time, he was teaching in the temple -
This shows how our Lord employed his time after coming to
Jerusalem: but it is not said, he was this day in the temple, and
next morning the people came. It does not therefore by any means
imply, that he came any more after this into the temple.
Verse
38. And all the people came early in the morning to hear him -
How much happier were his disciples in these early lectures, than
the slumbers of the morning could have made them on their beds!
Let us not scruple to deny ourselves the indulgence of
unnecessary sleep, that we may morning after morning place
ourselves at his feet, receiving the instructions of his word, and
seeking those of his Spirit.
Chapter 21:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mark John
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