Mark 13:1

Jesus and his followers started to leave God’s ceremony house, and as they walked along, one of them said, “Teacher, look at these lovely buildings. And look at these big stones. This is a really good house that they made for God.”

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And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!

In Context

2Jesus said, “You see these lovely big buildings? One day, these buildings will not be here. Somebody will knock them all down. They will just be a big pile of rubbish.”

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Matthew Henry on Mark 13:1

We have here the substance of that prophetical sermon which our Lord Jesus preached, pointing at the destruction of Jerusalem, and the consummation of all things; it was one of the last of his sermons, and not ad populum —to the people, but ad clerum —to the clergy; it was private, preached only to four of his disciples, with whom his secret was. Here is, I. The occasion of his prediction—his disciples' admiring the building of the temple ( ver. 1, 2 ), and their enquiry concerning the time of the desolation of… Read the whole commentary →

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