Matt. 24 Matt. 24:1–2 Christ foretells the destruction of the temple. Matt. 24:3–31 He showeth what signs and calamities shall go before it; and what shall happen at the time of his coming. Matt. 24:32–35 By a parable of the fig tree he marketh the certainty of the prediction. Matt.

Mark saith, Mark 13:1–2, one of his disciples. Luke saith, Luke 21:5, some. Mark saith, the disciple said, Master, what manner of stones and what buildings are here! Luke saith, they spake how the temple was adorned with goodly stones and gifts.

Mark saith, Mark 13:3–5, And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled? And Jesus answering them began to say, Take…

Mark hath the same, Mark 13:6 Luke saith, Luke 21:8, Many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not after them. Our Saviour seemeth to have given this as a sign common both to the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world, though possibly before the…

Mark hath the same, Mark 13:7–8. Luke hath also much the same, Luke 21:9–11, only he addeth, fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Mark hath this thus, Mark 13:9, But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

Mark saith, Mark 13:12–13, The brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

Here are two signs more given: 1. The abounding of false teachers. 2. The abatements of Christians’ zeal, and love to God. For the matter of Matt. 24:11, See Poole on “Matt. 24:23” and See Poole on “Matt. 24:24”, where we shall meet with it more fully.

We have the same Mark 13:13. We also met with it before, Matt. 10:22. It is a promise to perseverance, especially to such perseverance as is joined with fortitude.

So saith Mark, Mark 13:10. Some think that the end mentioned in the close of this verse refers to the destruction of Jerusalem; others, that it refers to the day of judgment.

Mark saith, Mark 13:14, standing where it ought not. Here are two questions: 1. What is here meant by the abomination of desolation. 2. What text in Daniel our Lord refers to. As to the latter, there are three places in Daniel which mention it: Dan.

Mark hath this, Mark 13:14–16. Luke saith, Luke 21:21, Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countriest enter thereinto.

Mark saith nothing of the sabbath day, Mark 13. Luke hath not what Matthew hath, Matt. 24:20. Woe to them in this text is only a phrase testifying our Saviour’s compassion on such, and indicative of the addition it would make to their misery, as it would retard their flight.

Mark hath the same in effect, Mark 13:19–20. Luke speaks more particularly, Luke 21:23–24. For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

Mark hath much the same, Matt. 13:21–23. There is no doubt but that our Saviour here hath a special respect to those persons who, about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, taking advantage of the Jewish expectation of the Messiah as a secular prince, who should restore them to liberty, (an…

Luke hath much the same, Luke 17:24, Luke 17:37. The disagreement of interpreters about the coming of the Son of man, here spoken of, makes a variety in their interpretation of these verses.

Mark saith, Mark 13:24–25. In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

Mark saith, Mark 13:26–27, And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

Mark hath the very same, Mark 13:28–31. So hath Luke, Luke 21:29–33, only he saith, the fig tree, and all the trees, when they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

Mark addeth, Mark 13:32, neither the Son, but the Father. Of that day and hour, that is, the particular time when the heavens and the earth shall pass away, as he had before said, or when the end of the world shall be, which was one of the questions propounded to him by his disciples, Matt. 24:3.

Luke hath much the same, Luke 17:26–27, where he also saith, it shall be as in the days of Lot; but I shall consider what he saith, which seemeth spoken at another time, and upon another occasion, when I come to his seventeenth chapter. Two things our Saviour seemeth here to teach us: 1.

Some refer this to the coming of Christ in his kingdom of grace; some: to his coming in the day of judgment: it is true of both those comings. God shows the freeness of his grace much in the conversion of sinners, and makes discriminations of which we can give no account, as he tells us, Luke…

Mark saith, Mark 13:33, Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. What our Lord here meaneth by watching is easily gathered, as well by what went before, where our Saviour had been speaking of the security and luxury of the old world, as by what followeth, Matt.

We have much the same, Luke 12:42–44, whether spake at the same time, and upon the same occasion, or no, I know not. It is said there, Luke 12:41, that Peter gave occasion to this discourse, by saying, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? Our Saviour replies as here, only Luke…

Luke hath much of this, Luke 12:45–46; But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the men servants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when…