Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Matthew 24:1

"And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple." — Matthew 24:1 (ASV)

As Jesus departs from the temple , his disciples call his attention to its various structures. They show that they have underestimated or even misunderstood the force of Jesus’ denunciations in ch. 23. They still focus on the temple, on which Jesus has pronounced doom, since the true center of the relation between God and humankind has shifted to himself.