Luke 21:20

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Luke 21:1-38

Here we have another illustration of the fact that nothing could escape the Master's vigilance. Of the gifts being cast into the treasury He was the true Appraiser. He saw the widow as she cast in her gift, and said that she had "cast in more than they all." In the realm of superfluity God does not begin to count. The first entry in the heavenly books is that of sacrifice. Addressing His disciples, Jesus spoke to them especially about their service and attitude. His words must have come with... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:1-38

Jesus Preaches In The Temple (19:47-21:38). Having driven the traders out of the Temple in His prophetic zeal Jesus then revealed the greatness of His great courage by returning daily to that same Temple in order to teach the people. As the traders, who would quickly have returned, watched with baleful eyes, and the Temple police stood by alert for trouble, Jesus boldly entered the Temple again, and ignoring both, proceeded to address the crowds gathered there. Indeed the great crowds that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:5-24

The Coming Destruction Of The Temple (21:5-24). The destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD is now for us a simple fact of history of which today many are unaware, and most see it as almost an irrelevance, but its implications were in fact huge for us all. To the disciples, and the Jews of Jesus’ day, and in fact to the whole history of the Christian world, its significance was certainly immense. For the Temple was seen by many Jews, and even by large numbers of Christian Jews, both... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:5-36

Prophecy Concerning the Destruction of the Temple, the Scattering of the Jews, and the Coming of the Son of Man (21:5-36). This passage connects with the last in that the disciples begin to discuss the offerings that had resulted in the building of the glorious Temple which they could see before them, first as they left the Temple, and then as they sat on the Mount of Olives (Marl Luke 13:3-4). These had been great indeed. Tens of thousand of people who flocked to the Temple would be amazed... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:20

“But when you see Jerusalem being surrounded with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.” The surrounding of Jerusalem by armies in the future was something constantly referred to in the Old Testament. We can consider, for example, Isaiah 4:4 where it can be assumed and is to happen ‘in that day’; Zechariah 14:2, where in ‘a day of the Lord’, ‘I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished ---; Daniel... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:20-24

The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple And The Scattering of the Jerusalemites (in the Great Tribulation Mentioned by Matthew) (21:20-24). The only sign that will be given of the events leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple will be the approaching foreign armies (‘standing where they ought not’ - Mark 13:14). That will be sufficient warning to those who will to take heed. In the event Galilee was the first to be invaded, and eventually Tiberius was invested. Ample... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:5-36

Luke 21:5-Zephaniah : . 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-Judges : Mark 13:1-Numbers : Matthew 24:1-Leviticus : First Signs of the End Luke 21:8-1 Kings : Mark 13:5-Ruth : Matthew 24:4-Ruth : Persecution Luke 21:12-Psalms : Mark... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 21:20-22

After our Saviour’s ascension, the seditions amongst the Jews were so many, and they rebelled so often against the Romans, during the governments of Felix, Festus, Albinus, and Florus, that the Romans resolved wholly to destroy them, and to that purpose Titus Vespasian was sent with an army against them, who took the city. Our Saviour foresaw, that when that time should come there would be some vain persons full of stomach for their liberties, that would be prophesying their deliverance, and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 21:7-38

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 21:7. And they asked Him.—St. Mark tells us (Luke 13:3) that the questioners were the apostles Peter, John, James and Andrew. The discourse that follows is related by the two first evangelists as having been uttered on the Mount of Olives. St. Luke does not mention the place, and but for the parallel reports of the discourse we might have supposed that it was given in the Temple. There is, however, a break after Luke 21:7, which agrees with the change of place. We are,... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Luke 21:20

when Verses 20,24 are not included in the report of the Olivet discourse as given by Matthew and Mark. Two sieges of Jerusalem are in view in that discourse. Luke 21:20-24 refers to the siege by Titus, A.D. 70, when the city was taken, and verse 24 literally fulfilled. But that siege and its horrors but adumbrate the final siege at the end of this age, in which the "great tribulation" culminates. At that time the city will be taken, but delivered by the glorious appearing of the Lord Revelation... read more

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