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Jesus Predicts the Destruction of the Temple(A)

(B)Then, as some spoke of the temple, how it was [a]adorned with beautiful stones and donations, He said, “These things which you see—the days will come in which (C)not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down.”

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  1. Luke 21:5 decorated

As some were talking about the [a]temple, that it was decorated with beautiful stones and consecrated offerings [of magnificent gifts of gold which were displayed on the walls and hung in the porticoes], He said,(A) “As for all these things which you see, the time will come when there will not be one stone left on another that will not be [b]torn down.”

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  1. Luke 21:5 See note Matt 24:1.
  2. Luke 21:6 In a.d. 70, just six years after the temple was completed, it was destroyed by the Roman general Titus and his army, who thoroughly devastated Jerusalem.

And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

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(A)[a]Now as some spake of the Temple, how it was garnished with goodly stones, and with [b]consecrated things, he said,

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.

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  1. Luke 21:5 The destruction of the Temple is foretold, that that true spiritual building may be built up, whose head builders must and ought to be circumspect.
  2. Luke 21:5 There were things that were hanged upon walls and pillars.

And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and devoted things it hath been adorned, he said,

`These things that ye behold -- days will come, in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'

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