Luke 21:8-9 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 21:5-19

See here, I. With what admiration some spoke of the external pomp and magnificence of the temple, and they were some of Christ's own disciples too; and they took notice of it to him how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, Luke 21:5. The outside was built up with goodly stones, and within it was beautified and enriched with the presents that were offered up for that purpose, and were hung up in it. They thought their Master should be as much affected with those things as they were, and... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 21:5-24

21:5-24 When some were speaking about the Temple, how it was adorned with lovely stones and offerings, Jesus said, "As for these things at which you are looking--days will come in which not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be pulled down." They asked him, "Teacher, when, then, will these things be? And what will be the sign when these things are going to happen?" He said, "Take care that you are not led astray. Many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!' and, 'The... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:8

And he said, take heed that ye be not deceived ,.... With false Christs, and false prophets: for many shall come in my name ; making use of his name, taking it to them; not that they would pretend they were sent by him, but that they were he himself: saying, I am Christ ; so the Syriac and Persic versions supply as we do: and the time draweth near ; not that such will come, but when come, they will say, that the time of the deliverance of the Jewish nation from the Roman yoke... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:9

But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions ,.... Or seditions and tumults; "wars" may design the wars of the Romans, against the Jews; and the "commotions", or seditions, the internal troubles among themselves: be not terrified ; as if the destruction of the nation, city, and temple, would be at once: for these things must first come to pass, but the end is not by and by ; or "immediately". The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions leave out this last word, and read, as in See Gill... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:8

Many shall come in my name - Usurping my name: calling themselves the Messiah. See Matthew 24:5 . Concerning this prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem, and its literal accomplishment, see the notes on Matthew 24:1-42 (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:9

Commotions - Seditions and civil dissensions, with which no people were more agitated than the Jews. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:5-38

Preliminaries of the second advent. It would seem that, as an interlude amid his diligent teaching in Jerusalem, Jesus and the disciples, on their way back to Bethany, had paused on the Mount of Olives and contemplated the temple. The building was a superb one, and so well put together that the disciples and people generally believed it would last till doomsday. Hence, amid their admiration for the gorgeous pile, came their question about the end of the world, which would, they believed,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:8

Many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ . Many of these pretenders appeared in the lifetime of the apostles. Josephus mentions several of these impostors ('Ant.,' 20.8 §§ 6-10; 'Bell. Jud.,' 2.13. § 5). Theudas, one of these pretenders, is referred to in Acts 21:38 (see, too, Josephus, 'Ant.,' 20.5. § 1). Simon Magus announced that he was Messiah. His riyal Dositheus, his disciple Menander, advanced similar pretences. Mr. Greswell (quoted by Dean Manse], 'Speaker's Commentary,' on ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:8-19

The apparent signs which ( could show themselves, but which must not be mistaken for the true signs immediately preceding the catastrophe. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:9-10

Wars and commotions … nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom . Josephus the Jewish, and Tacitus the Roman, historian—the former in his 'Jewish Wars,' and the latter in his 'Annals'—describe the period which immediately followed the Crucifixion as full of wars, crimes, violences, earthquakes. "It was a time," says Tacitus, "rich in disasters, horrible with battles, torn with seditions, savage even in peace itself." read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 21:5-19

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 21:5-24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 21:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 21:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:5-38

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:8-19

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:9-10

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