1. Ka/ s^sXduv o 'lrtaoiig avb rou hpou, etfopeuero, and Jesus having come forth from the temple, went His way) Such is the reading of the Colinaean editions, and of the following MSS., viz. : Bunkleanus, Cantabrigiensis, Paris, 5, 6, Stephanus r, or more ; also of Chrysostom, and the .ZEthiopic,1 Arabic, Latin, Persian, and Syriac versions : according to which evoptvtro (went His way) has greater force, being contrasted with, and in an tithesis to, xctiripivov ds Airou, and as He was sitting.2 Modern transcribers have, as though it mattered nothing, written etropevro axo rov hpov, He went His way from the temple? A discourse, which embraced even the end of the world, was appropriately held in the open air. — o't paQriral, the disciples) one especially, as we learn from Mark xiii. 1. — sKifaT^ai, to show) It is possible that Jesus had never looked at the outside of the temple, for lie was not curious ; cf. Gnomon on Mark xii. 15. He had looked, and that deservedly, at the inside of the temple ; Ibid. xi. 11. — rag o/xoSo/^ac, the buildings) The separate parts were in them selves great buildings : even at that time the building was being carried on, which is mentioned in John ii. 20. And perhaps it was being the more zealously done, on account of the proximity of the Passover. — rov hpou, of the temple) which was doomed to destruction ; see ch. xxiii. 38 ; and in that very age, too, only a few years after its completion.
2. Havra ravra, all these things) as they are standing. — ov w
1 That portion of the ^Ethiopic or Abyssinian Version which contains the New Testament, is supposed to have been executed in the fourth century by Frumentius, who, about the year 330, preached Christianity in ^Ethiopia. -(I.E.)
2 The verb •zroptvopou, signify ing progressive motion, corresponds with the Latin progredior, or the French marcher. — (I. B.)
He had now been in the temple for the last time. — V. g.
3 Such is the reading of the E. M., and of Bengel's own Edition of the Greek Testament. — (I B.)
Vulg. place the fTropsvero hist: and so Ilil. 728. Rec. Text puts o, without good authority. — ED.