Teks -- Mark 13:3 (NET)

Signs of the End of the Age

13:3 So while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

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Robertson: Mar 13:3 - Over against the temple

Over against the temple ( katenanti tou hierou ).

In full view of the temple about which they had been speaking.

Robertson: Mar 13:3 - Privately

Privately ( kat' idian ).

Peter and James and John and Andrew (named only in Mark) had evidently been discussing the strange comment of Jesus as they were coming out of the temple. In their bewilderment they ask Jesus a bit to one side, though probably all the rest drew up as Jesus began to speak this great eschatological discourse.

Vincent: Mar 13:3

Note the particularity of detail in Mark. He adds, over against the temple, and the names of the four who asked the question. With the following discourse compare Matthew 24.

JFB: Mar 13:3 - And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, over against the temple

On their way from Jerusalem to Bethany they would cross Mount Olivet; on its summit He seats Himself, over against the temple, having the city all spread out under His eye. How graphically is this set before us by our Evangelist!

JFB: Mar 13:3 - Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately

The other Evangelists tell us merely that "the disciples" did so. But Mark not only says that it was four of them, but names them; and they were the first quarternion of the Twelve.

TSK: Mar 13:3 - as // Peter // privately

as : Mat 24:3

Peter : Mar 1:16-19, Mar 5:37, Mar 9:2, Mar 10:35, Mar 14:33; Joh 1:40,Joh 1:41

privately : Mar 4:34; Mat 13:10,Mat 13:36

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Poole: Mar 13:3-4

Ver. 3,4. Matthew puts two things more into the question, What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? The best of men have a great curiosity to know futurities, things that shall hereafter come to pass. All the other part of this chapter is spent by our Saviour in an answer to these three questions, according to St. Matthew, or this one question, according to Mark and Luke. Some have attempted curiously to distinguish betwixt the signs intended by our Saviour, as relating to each period. But certainly those interpreters do judge best, that think our Saviour intended to let them know, that the destruction of Jerusalem should be a type of the destruction of the world at the last day, and that the same things should go before the one, and be signs of it, that should go before the other. And whoso readeth the history of Josephus, of what happened before the destruction of Jerusalem, and after this time, will find that there were few or none of these signs, that are here mentioned, but came to pass before the dreadful destruction of that so famous place; yet we must doubtless look for many, if not all, the same things to come to pass before the general destruction of the world in the last day.

Lightfoot: Mar 13:3 - Upon the mount of Olives, over against the Temple

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,   

[Upon the mount of Olives, over against the Temple.] "The east gate of the Court of the Gentiles had the metropolis Sushan painted on it. And through this gate the high priest went out to burn the red cow." And, "All the walls of that court were high, except the east wall; because of the priest, when he burnt the red cow, stood upon the top of mount Olivet; and took his aim, and looked upon the gate of the Temple, in that time when he sprinkled the blood." And, "The priest stood with his face turned westward, kills the cow with his right hand, and receives the blood with the left, but sprinkleth it with his right, and that seven times, directly towards the Holy of Holies."  

It is true, indeed, the Temple might be well seen from any tract of Olivet; but the word over against; if it doth not direct to this very place, yet to some place certainly in the same line: and it cannot but recall to our mind that action of the high priest.

Gill: Mar 13:3 - And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives // over against the temple // Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, asked him privately

And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives,.... On the east of Jerusalem:

over against the temple: where he could have a full view of it; the eastern wall of the temple being lower than the rest; See Gill on Mat 24:3.

Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, asked him privately; apart from the rest of the disciples, they being, especially the first three, his favourites, and very familiar with him.