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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 13:1-37

The Advancement of the Kingly Rule of God In The Midst Of The Battering of History: Preliminary Troubles - The Good News Proclaimed Among All Nations - The Coming Destruction of Jerusalem - The Coming of the Son of Man in Glory. The Temple Is To Be Replaced By God’s Elect - All Are Therefore To Watch (13:1-37). Having provided a glimpse through the withering of the fig tree of what God was going to do, Jesus announces that the time is coming when the great Temple of Jerusalem will be torn down... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 13:20

‘And unless the Lord had shortened the days no flesh would have been saved. But for the elect’s sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.” The destruction and killing would be so bad that if the Lord did not intervene none would remain alive. But we are told that He would shorten the days ‘for His elect’s sake’. Even though many of the Jerusalem church had fled there would still be in Jerusalem those given by the Father to Jesus, and the idea is that many of them would be preserved, and... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 13:1-37

Mark 13:1-Haggai : . 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... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 13:14-20

See Poole on "Matthew 24:15", and following verses to Matthew 24:22, where we have before opened all these passages. This sign doth manifestly relate to the destruction of Jerusalem, and can have no relation to the end of the world. In our notes on Matthew 24:13-51, we have showed what is meant by the abomination of desolation, and to what place in Daniel it refers. Luke expounds it, Luke 21:20, When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, the Roman armies, abominable for the idols that... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 13:14-32

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 13:14. The abomination of desolation.—Hebraism for the abomination that makes desolate. See Daniel 9:27; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 12:11. A comparison of this verse with the parallel passage in Matthew 24:15-16, makes it evident that the scene of this was to be the Temple. Once already had it been desecrated (1Ma. 1:54), when Antiochus Epiphanes set up the statue of Jupiter on the altar of burnt sacrifice. But a worse profanation was yet to follow. Josephus (Wars of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Mark 13:1-37

Mark's gospel chapter 13.And as he [Jesus] went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! ( Mark 13:1 )Referring to the great temple in Jerusalem that was started in the year 2219 B.C. by Herod the Great. It became one of the wonders of the ancient world. It took over fifty years to construct. Herod the Great was never able to complete it himself. Herod the Great, as we have mentioned before, was fond of using great... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Mark 13:1-37

Mark 13:2 . There shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. When the Chaldeans burned the temple, that part called Solomon’s porch escaped demolition; this favour however, small as it was, did not extend to the second temple. A Turkish mosque now succeeds the sanctuary; and the hill of Zion, once the repose of the ark, is now a fortress. Mark 13:3 . Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately. This is an addition to Matthew 24:0. The stones alluded... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 13:20

Mark 13:20Shortened those days.God shortened the siegeMany circumstances combined to secure the primary fulfilment of these words. The incomplete state of the fortifications, the paucity of food, the factious fights within the city, etc., shortened the siege; and Titus himself exclaimed, “God has fought for us: what could human hand or engines do against these towers!” (Stock.) read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Mark 13:20

20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. Ver. 20. Except the Lord had shortened ] Mutilaverat, truncaverat, εκολοβωσε . Not in respect of the divine decree, but, 1. Of the long miseries that the people had deserved. 2. Of the enemies’ rage, that would have exceeded. See Zechariah 1:13 . read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Mark 13:20

for: Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 6:13, Isaiah 65:8, Isaiah 65:9, Zechariah 13:8, Zechariah 13:9, Matthew 24:22, Romans 11:5-Judges :, Romans 11:23, Romans 11:24, Romans 11:28-Jonah : Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:62 - few in number Isaiah 43:20 - my chosen Isaiah 45:4 - Jacob Ezekiel 14:22 - therein Ezekiel 20:5 - In the Daniel 2:30 - but Matthew 13:33 - Another Matthew 19:25 - Who Mark 13:27 - his elect Luke 21:22 - all Colossians 3:12 - as 1 Peter 1:2 - Elect 1 Peter 4:18 - if read more