1–39 Chapters 24–25, the “Olivet Discourse” (because it was given on the Mount of Olives, v. 3), discusses the future and constitutes Yeshua’s fifth and final teaching in the book of Mattityahu (see 13:1–52N). It is interesting to compare with this chapter a Talmud passage that predicts events prior to the Messiah’s coming: “Rabbi Yitzchak said that Rabbi Yochanan said, ‘In the generation when the Son of David is to come, scholars will be few in number. As for others, their eyes will
Matthew 24:1