*: Mark 12:42
1: The poor may exceed in bounty and liberality, even according to
God's judgement.
*: Chapter 19:43 Matthew 24:1 Mark
13:1
2: The desecration of the Temple is foretold, that that true
spiritual building may be build up, whose head builders must and
ought to be circumspect.
a: These were things that were hanged upon walls and pillars.
*: Ephesians 5:6 2 Thessalonians 2:3
b: Using my name.
3: The true Temple of God is built up even in the midst of incredible
tumults, and most sharp miseries, though invincible patience, so that
the end thereof cannot be but most happy.
*: Matthew 24:7
Mark 13:8
c: This shall be the end of your troubles and afflictions, they shall
be witnesses both before God and man as well of the treacherous and
cruel dealings of your enemies, as also off your constancy: A noble
saying, that the afflictions off the godly and holy men pertain to
the witness of the truth.
*: Chapter 12:12 Matthew 10:19 Mark
10:30
*: Matthew 10:30
d: Though you are compassed about on all sides with many miseries,
yet notwithstanding be valiant and courageous, and bear out these
things manfully.
*: Daniel 9:27 Matthew
24:15 Mark 13:14
4: The final destruction of the whole city is foretold.
e: By wrath those thing are meant, which God sendeth when he is
displeased.
f: Word for Word, mouth: for the Hebrews call the edge of a sword,
the mouth, because the edge biteth.
*: Isaiah 13:10 Ezekiel 32:7 Matthew 24:29 Mark 13:24
g: When the times are expired, appointed for the salvation of the
gentiles, and punishment of the Jews: And so he passeth from the
destruction of Jerusalem, to the history of the latter judgement.
5: After diverse tempests, the Lord will at length plainly appear to
deliver his Church.
*: Romans 8:27
6: We must be sober and watchful both day and night for the Lord's
coming, that we be not taken at unawares.
*: Romans 13:13
h: On all men wheresoever they be.
i: You may so appear, that you will abide the countenance and
sentence of the judge without fear.
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Chapter 21
1. The widow's liberality above her riches. 5. Of the time of the
destruction of the Temple, 19. and Jerusalem. 25. The signs going
before the last judgement.
And *1 as he beheld, he
saw the rich men, which cast their gifts into the treasury.
2 And he saw also a certain poor widow
which cast in thither two mites:
3 And he said, Of a
truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more then
they all.
4 For they all have
of their superfluity cast into the offerings of God: but she of her
penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
5 *2
Now as some spake of the Temple, how it was garnished with
goodly stones, and with a
consecrated things, he said,
6 Are these the
things that ye look upon? the days will come wherein a stone shall
not be left upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.
7 Then they asked him, saying, Master,
but when shall these things be? and what sign shall there
be when these things shall come to pass?
8 * And he said, Take heed, that ye be not deceived: for many will come
b in my name,
saying, I am Christ,
and the time draweth near: follow ye not them therefore.
9 3 And when ye hear of wars and seditions, be not afraid:
for these things must first come, but the end followeth not by and
by.
10 Then said he
unto them, Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against
kingdom,
11 * And great
earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and hunger, and pestilence,
and fearful things, and great signs shall there be from heaven.
12 But before all
these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the
assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before kings and rulers
for my name's sake.
13 And this shall
turn to you, for c a testimonial.
14 * Lay it up
therefore in your hearts, that ye cast not before hand, what ye shall
answer.
15 For I will give
you a mouth, and wisdom, where against all your adversaries shall not
be able to speak, nor resist.
16 Yea, ye shall be
betrayed also of your parents, and of your brethren, and kinsmen, and
friends, and some of
you shall they put to death.
17 And ye shall be
hated of all men for my name's sake.
18 * Yet there
shall not one hair of your heads perish.
19 By your patience
d possess your
souls.
20 ¶*4 And when ye see Jerusalem besieged with soldiers, then
understand that the desolation thereof is near.
21 Then let them
which are in Judea, flee to the mountains: and let them which are in
the midst thereof, depart out: and let not them that are in the
country, enter therein.
22 For these be the
days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that are written.
23 But woe
be to them that be with
child, and to them that give suck in those days: for there shall be
great distress in this land, and e
wrath over this people.
24 And they shall
fall on the f edge
of the sword, and shall be led captive into all nations, and
Jerusalem shall be trodden underfoot of the gentiles, until the time of the
gentiles be fulfilled.
25 *g Then there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon,
and in the stars, and upon the earth trouble among the nations with
perplexity: the sea and the waters shall roar.
26 5 And men's hearts shall fail them for fear, and for
looking after those things which shall come on the world: for the
powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall
they see the son of man come in a cloud, with great power and great
glory.
28 And when these
things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your
heads: * for your redemption draweth near.
29 6 And he
spake to them a parable, Behold, the fig tree, and
all trees,
30 When they now
shoot forth, ye seeing them, know of your own selves, that summer in
then near.
31 So likewise ye,
when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of
God is near.
32 Verily I say
unto you, This age shall not pass, till all these things be done:
33 Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
34 * Take heed to
yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeiting
and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and lest that day come on
you at unawares.
35 For as a snare
shall it come h on
all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch therefore,
and pray continually, that ye may be counted worthy to escape all
these things that shall come to pass, and that ye may i stand before the son of man.
37 ¶ Now in the day time he taught in
the Temple, and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is
called the mount of Olives.
38 And all the people came in the
morning to him, to hear him in the Temple.
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