5And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
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Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! …
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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…
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