3And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, …
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. …
So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Here is, I. Christ’s quitting the temple , and his public work there. He had said, in the close of the foregoing chapter, Your house is left unto you desolate ; and here he made his words good; He went out, and departed from the temple . The manner of expression is observable; he not only went out of the temple, but departed from it, took his final farewell of it; he departed from it, never to ret…
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