Commentaries on Mark 13:7

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And when ye shall hear of wars, and rumours of wars,.... Among the Jews themselves, and with the Romans: be not troubled; keep your place, abide by your work, go on preaching the Gospel, without distressing yourselves about the event of things: for [such things] must needs be: being decreed by God, foretold by Christ, and made necessary by the sins of the people: but the end shall not be yet; of...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

We have here the substance of that prophetical sermon which our Lord Jesus preached, pointing at the destruction of Jerusalem, and the consummation of all things; it was one of the last of his sermons, and not ad populum—to the people, but ad clerum—to the clergy; it was private, preached only to four of his disciples, with whom his secret was. Here is, I. The occasion of his prediction—his...