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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Settle it therefore in your hearts,.... Resolve on this in your minds, and let it be a rule never to be departed from: not to meditate before what you shall answer; not to sit down, and study a form of words, and scheme of things, what to reply to the ensnaring questions, that may be thought would be asked, by kings and rulers, or any of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I will give you a mouth,.... A faculty of speaking, a freedom of expression, a door of utterance, a good degree of elocution, to speak properly, pertinently and freely to any point: and wisdom; to answer with great propriety, and in the most prudent manner, to any difficult and ensnaring question; and to furnish with such knowledge of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren,.... [See comments on Matthew 10:21] and kinsfolks, and friends. The Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions add, "your", to each of these relations, as your parents, c. and some of you shall they cause to be put to death as Stephen was stoned to death, and James, the brother of John, Herod...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. How true that has been many a time! For how long a period the saints were martyred! And the days of martyrdom are not yet over.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And ye shall be hated of all men,.... [See comments on Matthew 10:22]. [See comments on Matthew 24:9].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. But there shall not an hair of your head perish. During all the terrible siege of Jerusalem, it is believed that not one Christian perished, for God took special care of the followers of his Son. They were the most hated of all men, yet nobody could touch them. None of them took up arms, for it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But there shall not art hair of your head perish. That is, without the will of God, as in Matthew 10:29 or not one shall perish, but what shall be restored again: or the sense is, that though they should be betrayed by their friends, and hated, and persecuted, and imprisoned by their enemies, yet they should be no losers in the main; all things...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In your patience, possess ye your souls. By patiently bearing all afflictions, reproaches, indignities, and persecutions, enjoy yourselves; let nothing disturb or distress you; possess that peace and joy in your souls, which the world cannot take away; see Romans 5:3. The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read, "ye shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In your patience possess ye your souls. And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Persic versions read, "with an army"; that is, with the Roman army, as it was by the army which Titus Vespasian brought against it, and besieged it with: then know that the desolation thereof is nigh; signifying, that there would be no deliverance to be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains,.... [See comments on Matthew 24:16]. And let them which are in the midst of it; either of Judea, as the preceding clause seems to direct the sense; or in Jerusalem, and which indeed was in the midst of Judea; and this sense is favoured by the Persic version, which renders it, "within the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For these be the days of vengeance,.... Of God's vengeance on the Jewish nation, for their rejection and crucifixion of the Messiah; that all things which are written may be fulfilled; as in Moses and the prophets; see Deuteronomy 28:20
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But woe unto them that are with-child,.... [See comments on Matthew 24:19]. For there shall be great distress in the land; of Judea. The Greek word αναγκη, here used, properly signifies "necessity", but here intends afflictions and distress; in which sense it is often used by the Septuagint, as in Psalms 107:6 and it is also by the Targumists...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword,.... Or "mouth of the sword", an Hebraism; see the Septuagint in Jude 1:8. The number of those that perished by the famine and sword, were eleven hundred thousand (f): and shall be led away captive unto all nations; when the city was taken, the most beautiful of the young men were kept for the triumph;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon,.... They shall be darkened, and suffer very strange and surprising eclipses: and in the stars; they shall fall from heaven, as in Matthew 24:29 and so the Ethiopic version reads here: all which, as it may be understood in a literal sense, so it may likewise in figurative and mystical one, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there shall be signs in the sun — As there were at the destruction of Jerusalem, and as there will be at the second coming of Christ. We have had a rehearsal of that coming in the destruction of the favored city; but the grand event itself, who shall rightly speak of it?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see — Whether they wish to see him or not, “then shall they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Men's hearts failing them for fear,.... Of what these signs in the heaven, earth, and sea portend: and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; on the land of Judea: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken; [See comments on Matthew 24:29].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And then shall they see the son of man,.... [See comments on Matthew 24:30].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. And he spake to them a parable; Behold 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. So...