Luke 21

Luke 21
Luke 6:4-16 on Papyrus 4, written about AD 150-175.
Book Gospel of Luke
Bible part New Testament
Order in the Bible part 3
Category Gospel

Luke 21 is the twenty-first chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the observations and predictions of Jesus Christ delivered in the temple in Jerusalem.[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.[2]

Text

Structure

The New International Version organises this chapter as follows:

The New King James Version divides verses 5-38 into further discrete sections:

The beauty of the Temple

Some spoke of the temple ... (verse 5: Greek: τινων λεγοντων περι του ιερου, tinōn legontōn peri tou hierou).

The New International Version translates this as "Some of his disciples ...",[3] but some other versions suggest "some people" i.e. not specifically disciples of Jesus.[4] The "beautiful stones" and the "gifts dedicated to God" both contribute to the splendor of the temple.

The destruction of the Temple

Matthew and Mark state that Jesus spoke privately to his disciples on Mount Olivet about the end times and the destruction of Jerusalem: see Olivet Discourse. Luke does not present this teaching as delivered privately:

In the daytime, He was teaching in the temple, but at night He went out and stayed on the mountain called Olivet. Then early in the morning all the people came to Him in the temple to hear Him.[5]

Parable of the Budding Fig Tree

A fig tree

This parable was told by Jesus Christ and in the New Testament is found in Matthew Matthew 24:32-35, Mark Mark 13:28-31, and Luke Luke 21:29-33. This parable, about the Kingdom of God, involves a fig tree, as does the equally brief parable of the barren fig tree, with which it should not be confused. Luke presents this parable as eschatological in nature:[6] like the leaves of the fig tree, the signs spoken of in the Olivet discourse of Luke 21:5-28 [7] indicate the coming of the Kingdom of God.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an Abbreviated Bible Commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. ↑ Luke 21:5
  4. ↑ International Standard Version and New Century Version
  5. ↑ Luke 21:37-38
  6. ↑ Bernard Brandon Scott, Hear Then the Parable: A commentary on the parables of Jesus, Fortress Press, 1989, ISBN 0-8006-2481-5, pp. 338-340.
  7. ↑ Luke 21:5-28
Preceded by
Luke 20		 Chapters of the Bible
Gospel of Luke		 Succeeded by
Luke 22
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