[Footnote a: This great discourse has as its background the death of Christ. Further on as part punishment for this crime lies the destruction of Jerusalem. This catastrophe is itself a symbol of the end of the world and in one sense a coming of Christ in power and judgment. But Christ boldly predicts his own personal return to earth, though the time is not revealed. But he does exhort an expectant attitude toward the promises of his coming and readiness for his return which will be at an unexpected hour. Jesus employs the common Jewish apocalyptic imagery to portray this most difficult subject. Some scholars insist that Jesus was himself merely a wild enthusiast who was carried away by the Messianic hopes of his people, but that is a one-sided and distorted view of Christ's life and ignores the great mass of his ethical teaching. It forgets also that Jesus has a world program of conquest and of power. The various aspects of the discourse are not kept distinct. Some think that the Gospels have misunderstood or misrepresented Jesus in this discourse. But we can catch the general drift of the teaching and leave alone minute details of time and place against which Jesus himself warned us.] |Mark 13:1-37 |Matt. 24 and 25 |Luke 21:5-36 | | | _1 Occasion | 1 And as he | 1 And Jesus | of the | went forth out | went out from | Prophecy | of the temple, | the temple, and| 5 And as some about the | one of his | was going on | spake of the Destruction | disciples saith| his way; and | temple, how it of the | unto him, | his disciples | was adorned Temple._ | [18]Master, | came to him to | with goodly | behold, what | shew him the | stones and | manner of | buildings of | offerings, he | stones and what| 2 the temple. But| 6 said, As for | manner of | he answered and| these things | 2 buildings! And | said unto them,| which ye | Jesus said unto| See ye not all | behold, the | him, Seest thou| these things? | days will | these great | verily I say | come, in which | buildings? | unto you, There| there shall | there shall not| shall not be | not be left | be left here | left here one | here one stone | one stone upon | stone upon | upon another, | another, which | another, that | that shall not | shall not be | shall not be | be thrown | thrown down. | thrown down. | down. _2 Inquiry | 3 And as he sat| 3 And as he sat| for Further | on the mount of| on the mount of| Light from | Olives over | Olives, |