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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the days shall come upon thee,.... Suddenly, and very quickly, as they did within forty years after this: that thine enemies; the Romans, and such the Jews took them to be, and might easily understand who our Lord meant: shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side: which was not only verified in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And shall lay thee even with the ground,.... Beat down all the houses in it, the stately edifices, and even the temple itself; [See comments on Matthew 24:2] and thy children within thee; that is, the inhabitants of the place should be slain with the sword of the enemy, and so fall to the ground, and lie upon it; and they shall not leave in thee...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he went into the temple,.... Being come into the city, he alighted from the colt he rode on, and having committed it to the care of a proper person to return it to the owner, he went up directly to the temple, of which he was the Lord and proprietor, and where he had some work to do the few days he had to live. And began to cast out them that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Saying unto them, it is written,.... In Isaiah 56:7 my house is the house of prayer; built and devoted for that service: but ye have made it a den of thieves; which clause is not written in the above prophecy, but are the words of Christ referring to Jeremiah 7:11. The Ethiopic version adds, "and robbers"; and the Persic version adds, "and a place...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he taught daily in the temple,.... Every day till the passover came, and only in the day; for at night he went out of the city to Bethany, or to the Mount of Olives: some of his discourses in the temple, the parables he delivered, and his disputations with the doctors, are recorded in Matthew 21:27: but the chief priests, and the Scribes, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And could not find what they might do,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, and so Beza's most ancient copy, add, "to him"; they could not find an opportunity of seizing him, nor any advantage against him; they knew not what steps to take, nor how to bring about their wicked design of destroying him. For all the people were very...