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The goal of the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series is to clearly convey every thought contained in the Bible by presenting the message of each passage as well as an overview of other issues surrounding the text in an accessible but high-level discussion of scriptural interpretation. The nearly 40 scholars, many of whom participated in the creation of the New Living Translation, are...

Jesus moved from speaking predictively to speaking paraenetically or hortatively. From this point on, his goal was not to provide additional information to answer the disciples’ question (24:3) but to exhort them on the proper response to that information. This may not be what the disciples wanted to know, but it is what they needed to know. Matthew 24:32–35 parabolically expresses the nearness of the coming of Christ. Jesus’ contemporaries were familiar with the process by which the fig tree in
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