2And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
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As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, …
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)We may here see, I. How apt many of Christ’s own disciples are to idolize things that look great , and have been long looked upon as sacred . They had heard Christ complain of those who had made the temple a den of thieves ; and yet, when he quitted it, for the wickedness that remained in it, they court him to be as much in love as they were with the stately structure and adorning of it. One of th…
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