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Jesus, the Temple and the Coming Son of Man: A Commentary on Mark 13 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gospels contain many hard sayings of Jesus, but perhaps none have puzzled and intrigued readers as much as Jesus’ discourse on the coming of the Son of Man in Mark 13. Is Jesus speaking entirely of an event in the near future, a coming destruction of the temple? Or is he referring to a distant, end-of-the-world event? Or might he even be speaking of both near and distant events? But in that...

Matthew 24:3c—“and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” (italics added) It appears from Matthew’s modification of Mark 13:4b that he wanted the second part of the question in Mark 13:4b to serve as an introduction for the additional parousia material that he included in his version of the Olivet Discourse. It is clear that Matthew has added to Mark 13 a considerable amount of material dealing with the coming of the Son of Man not found in Mark or Luke.40 This fits well
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