Luke 21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:34

And take heed to yourselves ,.... To your souls and bodies, to your lives and conversations; be upon your watch and guard: lest your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness ; with excessive eating and drinking; for these, as they oppress and burden the stomach, and disorder the body, so they stupefy the senses, and make the mind dull and heavy, and unfit for spiritual and religious exercises; such as reading, meditation, and prayer: and cares of this life ; concealing... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:35

For as a snare shall it come ,.... In which a bird is suddenly taken, and cannot get out again; the Persic version renders it, "as lightning and the splendour of the sun"; which break out at once, and enlighten the whole earth; so the destruction of the Jewish nation should be sudden and unavoidable, and universal; for it should come on all them that dwell upon the face of the whole earth : or land of Judea; and so it was, for not only Jerusalem, but all Judea, and Galilee, suffered in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:36

Watch ye therefore, and pray always ,.... Watch against every sin, snare, and temptation; particularly, against the above things, surfeiting, drunkenness, and worldly cares; pray continually, for fresh supplies of grace: that ye may be counted worthy ; not for watchfulness and prayer, but through the grace and goodness of God: to escape all these things that shall come to pass ; the dreadful miseries and distress, that shall come upon the Jews: and to stand before the Son of man ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:37

And in the day time he was teaching in the temple ,.... That is, Jesus, as the Persic version expresses it; his constant method every day, till the feast of passover came, was to go up to the temple, and there openly and freely preach the Gospel to the people, who resorted thither in great numbers, for that purpose: and at night he went out ; of the temple, and out of the city: and abode in the mount that is called the Mount of Olives ; very likely to pray, both for himself and for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:38

And all the people came early in the morning ,.... Not all the people in Jerusalem, every inhabitant of the city; this word "all", is often to be taken with a restriction, and here it designs a large number; the Persic version renders it, "vast multitudes": these, some out of curiosity, and others from a real love to him, and his ministry, rose betimes, and came early, to him in the temple, to hear him ; which is said, in commendation of Christ's hearers, and is worthy of imitation; as... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21

The poor widow casting two mites into the treasury, Luke 21:1-4 . The destruction of the temple foretold, Luke 21:5 , Luke 21:6 . The signs of this desolation, Luke 21:7 . False Christs, Luke 21:8 . Wars, Luke 21:9 , Luke 21:10 . Earthquakes and fearful sights, Luke 21:11 . Persecutions against the godly, Luke 21:12-19 . Directions how to escape, Luke 21:20-22 . The tribulation of those times, Luke 21:23-28 . The parable of the fig tree, illustrative of the time when they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:1

The rich men casting their gifts into the treasury - See all this, from Luke 21:1-4 , explained on Mark 12:41-44 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:2

A certain poor widow - A widow miserably poor; this is the proper import of πενιχραν , and her being miserably poor heightened the merit of the action. Two mites - Which Mark says, Mark 12:42 , make a farthing or quadrans, the fourth part of an As, or penny, as we term it. In Plutarch's time we find the smallest piece of brass coin in use among the Romans was the quadrans, but it appears that a smaller piece of money was in circulation among the Jews in our Lord's time, called here,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:5

Goodly stones - Or, costly stones. It has been thought by some that this relates not so much to the stones of which the temple was built, as to the precious stones with which it was decorated. For an account of the stones of the temple, see on Mark 13:1 ; (note). And gifts - Or, consecrated things, αναθημασι . Αναθημα properly signifies a thing consecrated to sacred uses: Αναθεμα signifies a thing devoted to a curse, or to destruction. They both come from the same root, ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:6

One stone upon another - This was literally fulfilled. See Matthew 24:2 . read more

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