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Matthew 24: Leaving the temple, and the warning on the Mount of Olives

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Matthew 23:37ESV

“O , , the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

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As he sat on the , the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

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then let those who are in flee to the mountains.

Matthew 26:6ESV

Now when Jesus was at in the house of Simon the leper,

Matthew 23
Matthew 26

Jesus leaves the temple in Jerusalem and tells his disciples that not one of its stones will be left upon another. As he sits on the Mount of Olives they ask him privately when this will be, and he answers with wars, famines, false christs and the gospel proclaimed to all nations. When the abomination of desolation stands in the holy place, those in Judea are to flee to the mountains without going back for anything.

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Verses 3 and 16: the Mount of Olives where Jesus sits to answer his disciples, and Judea, whose people are told to flee to the mountains.

  • Where Jesus sits when the disciples come to him privately with their question (verse 3), after he has left the temple. It is the ridge just east of Jerusalem; all 500 votes put it there.

    Today: the ridge east of Jerusalem's Old City

  • Named in verse 16: when the abomination of desolation stands in the holy place, "let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains." Judea is the southern hill country around Jerusalem. The gazetteer's only point for it is Jerusalem itself (500 votes).

    a whole region; the gazetteer's point for it is Jerusalem, a city standing in for the country

Matthew 24, verse by verse

  1. Matthew 24:3As he sat on the , the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
  2. Matthew 24:16then let those who are in flee to the mountains.