Mark 13:2

And Jesus answering said unto him,.... The Persic version reads, "unto them"; and so Beza's most ancient copy but as that question is put by one, the reply is made to him:

seest thou these great…

We may here see,

I. How apt many of Christ's own disciples are to idolize things that look great, and have been long looked upon as sacred. They had heard Christ complain of those who had made the…

there shall not be left Though now they seem fixed in their places for eternity. And even as He said, less than forty years afterwards, "Zion was ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem became heaps, and…