Jesus gives a two-part answer to the disciples’ two-part question, albeit the two parts of their question and his answer do not match. The disciples are concerned with the impending destruction of the temple and Jesus’s age-ending coming. Jesus is concerned not so much with the “when?” and the “what?” of these events as he is with the “so what?” Although 24:4–35 speaks to some extent about the when and what, it does so with relative brevity and imprecision. Jesus
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