Mark 13:4

“Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?”

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WEBBE

“Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?”

BSB

“Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to be fulfilled?”

KJV

Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?

ASV

Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign when these things are all about to be accomplished?

BBE

Say when these things will be, and what will be the sign when these things are all about to be done.

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The early church

(Epist. cxcix. 9.) In answer to the disciples, the Lord tells them of things which were from that time forth to have their course; whether He meant the destruction of Jerusalem which occasioned their question, or His own coming through the Church, (in which He ever comes even unto the end, for we know that He comes in His own, when His members are born day by day,) or the end itself, in which He will appear to judge the quick and the dead.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(ubi sup.) Because the Lord, when some were praising the buildings of the temple, had plainly answered that all these were to be destroyed, the disciples privately enquired about the time and the signs of the destruction which was foretold; wherefore it is said: And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, Tell us when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled. The Lord sits upon the mount of Olives, over against the temple, when He discourses upon the ruin and destruction of the temple, so that even His bodily position may be in accordance with the words which He speaks, pointing out mystically that, abiding in peace with the saints, He hates the madness of the proud. For the mount of Olives marks the fruitful sublimity of the Holy Church.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–4

See how little Christ values outward pomp, where there is not real purity of heart. He looks with pity upon the ruin of precious souls, and weeps over them, but we do not find him look with pity upon the ruin of a fine house. Let us then be reminded how needful it is for us to have a more lasting abode in heaven, and to be prepared for it by the influences of the Holy Spirit, sought in the earnest use of all the means of grace.

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