Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 13:7-8
Matthew adds pestilences. Luke saith, pestilences, and fearful sights and great signs from heaven. See Poole on "Matthew 24:6", and following verses to Matthew 24:8. Here are two or three more signs put together: 1. Wars, and rumours of wars; great commotions in nations, which though they may be at other times, yet probably may be more extraordinary before the day of judgment. 2. Famines, pestilences, and earthquakes. 3. Fearful sights, and apparitions in the air and the heavens. Such there... read more
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