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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when these things begin to come to pass,.... When the first of these signs appears, or any one of them: then look up and lift up your heads; be cheerful and pleasant; do not hang down your heads as bulrushes, but erect them, and put on a cheerful countenance, and look upwards, from whence your help comes; and look out wistfully and intently,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he spake to them a parable,.... That is, to his disciples: behold the fig tree, and all the trees; that, or any other tree; [See comments on Matthew 24:32].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When they now shoot forth,.... Their buds, branches, and leaves; the Vulgate Latin adds, "of themselves": ye see and know of your own selves; without any hint, or direction from others, the case is so plain and obvious; the Syriac and Arabic versions read, "of them"; the trees, by their putting forth their buds and leaves; the Persic and Ethiopic...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So likewise when ye see these things come to pass,.... The signs before mentioned, in Lu 21:8. Know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand: a more visible and glorious display of the kingdom of the Messiah, in the destruction of his enemies, the Jews; see Mr 9:1.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Verily I say unto you, this generation,.... [See comments on Matthew 24:34]. [See comments on Matthew 24:35]. All the Oriental versions read here as there, "all these things"; before related.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Lu 21:32].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, — Please notice that “cares of this life” are put down with over-eating and over-drinking, for men can be intoxicated and surfeited with care, either...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And take heed to yourselves,.... To your souls and bodies, to your lives and conversations; be upon your watch and guard: lest your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness; with excessive eating and drinking; for these, as they oppress and burden the stomach, and disorder the body, so they stupefy the senses, and make the mind dull...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And so that day come upon you unawares. All that you can see in this world, you are to regard as being doomed to destruction; that destruction commenced, so to speak, when Jerusalem fell beneath the Roman sword. Everything earthly is doomed. You are living, not in your eternal mansions but you are living a makeshift life; you are passing through a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For as a snare shall it come,.... In which a bird is suddenly taken, and cannot get out again; the Persic version renders it, "as lightning and the splendour of the sun"; which break out at once, and enlighten the whole earth; so the destruction of the Jewish nation should be sudden and unavoidable, and universal; for it should come on all them...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Watch ye therefore, and pray always,.... Watch against every sin, snare, and temptation; particularly, against the above things, surfeiting, drunkenness, and worldly cares; pray continually, for fresh supplies of grace: that ye may be counted worthy; not for watchfulness and prayer, but through the grace and goodness of God: to escape all these...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And in the day time he was teaching in the temple,.... That is, Jesus, as the Persic version expresses it; his constant method every day, till the feast of passover came, was to go up to the temple, and there openly and freely preach the Gospel to the people, who resorted thither in great numbers, for that purpose: and at night he went out; of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And all the people came early in the morning,.... Not all the people in Jerusalem, every inhabitant of the city; this word "all", is often to be taken with a restriction, and here it designs a large number; the Persic version renders it, "vast multitudes": these, some out of curiosity, and others from a real love to him, and his ministry, rose...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him. May we all be willing, not only to hear him, but also to heed what he says! Amen.