April 15, 2025
Holy Week - Holy Tuesday
Matthew 24:1-2
04/15/2025
1 Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his
disciples came to point out to him the buildings
of the temple.
2 But he answered them, ``You see all these, do you
not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left
here one stone upon another that will not be
thrown down.'' (ESV)
In the days following Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, He and
His disciples spent many hours in the Temple. On Monday Jesus
drove the money-changers out of the Temple, saying, ``It is
written, `My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you
make it a den of robbers'''[1]
On Tuesday, Jesus again was teaching in the Temple, even as
the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees were trying to catch
Him in a contest of words. Time and again these rulers asked
impossible questions which had no correct answer, but Jesus
avoided the verbal traps.
Matthew recorded:
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his
disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the
temple. But he answered them, ``You see all these, do
you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left
here one stone upon another that will not be thrown
down.''
There, while resting on the Mount of Olives, Jesus spoke of
the destruction of Jerusalem, which happened in 70 A.D. He also
told of the signs of the end times, signs which certainly seem to
be coming true even today. However, Jesus warned the disciples:
``But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the
angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.''[2]
May our Lord find us ready, believing the words He spoke to
His disciples, as we await for His return. Amen.
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1. Matthew 21:13 (ESV)
2. Matthew 24:36 (ESV)