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Over against the temple (κατεναντ του ιερου). In full view of the temple about which they had been speaking.
Privat…

Upon the mount of Olives over against the temple. The Mount of Olives was directly east of Jerusalem, and from it there was a fine view of…

Opposite the temple.—The view that the position commanded, and which St. Mark alone mentions, made all that followed more vivid an…

The Venerable Bede: Because the Lord, when some were praising the buildings of the temple, had clearly answered that all these …

Between v.2 and v.3 the location shifts. Jesus was now on the Mount of Olives. With him were the four disciples who had been the first to be called…

And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives
On the east of Jerusalem:
over against the temple

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 o…
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A.T. Robertson
A.T.Robertson