Mat 24:1 | RWP | e4.org | Went out from the temple ( εξελθων απο του ιερου ). All the discourses since have been in the temple courts ( ιερον , the sacred enclosure). But now Jesus leaves it for good after the powerful denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees in chapter 23. His public teaching is over. It was a tragic moment. As he was going out ( επορευετο , descriptive imperfect) the disciples, as if to relieve the thought of the Master came to him ( προσηλθον ) to show ( επιδειξα , ingressive aorist infinitive) the buildings of the temple ( τας οικοδομας του ιερου ). They were familiar to Jesus and the disciples, but beautiful like a snow mountain (Josephus, Wars V,5,6), the monument that Herod the Great had begun and that was not yet complete ( ). Great stones were there of polished marble.

‏ Matthew 24:1

Went out from the temple ( εξελθων απο του ιερου ). All the discourses since Mt 21:23 have been in the temple courts ( ιερον, the sacred enclosure). But now Jesus leaves it for good after the powerful denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees in chapter 23. His public teaching is over. It was a tragic moment. As he was going out ( επορευετο, descriptive imperfect) the disciples, as if to relieve the thought of the Master came to him ( προσηλθον ) to show ( επιδειξα, ingressive aorist infinitive) the buildings of the temple ( τας οικοδομας του ιερου ). They were familiar to Jesus and the disciples, but beautiful like a snow mountain (Josephus, Wars V,5,6), the monument that Herod the Great had begun and that was not yet complete (Joh 2:20). Great stones were there of polished marble.