Verses 5-36
§ 118. JESUS FORETELLS THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND DISTINGUISHES IT FROM THE FINAL JUDGMENT, Luke 21:5-36 .
Of our Lord’s discourse, Matthew’s report reads like a somewhat verbal sketch of an actual hearer, yet so abridged as to omit parts requisite to a complete understanding. Mark’s is a smaller sketch, still more abbreviated; while Luke’s seems rather a report from memory, giving rather the substance than the words, yet supplying parts requisite for an exact understanding of Matthew.
As a somewhat dimmer report, Luke exhibits faint traces of the four points of the contrast between the destruction of Jerusalem and the judgment day, which we have found in Matthew. Without giving a warning of the distinction, (Luke 21:8-9,) he exhibits one great contrast between the destruction of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jews (Luke 21:10-24) on the one hand, and the judgment day (Luke 21:25-27) on the other. Then Luke 21:28-33 furnish the warning, parallel to Matthew 24:32-35, to provide for the troubles of the destruction; and Luke 21:34-38 are the compressed parallel of all the discourses of Matthew 25:0.
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