24:3 As 4 he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things 5 happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
1 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
2 tn Grk “the deceitfulness of riches.” Cf. BDAG 99 s.v. ἀπάτη 1, “the seduction which comes from wealth.”
3 sn That is, their concern for spiritual things is crowded out by material things.
4 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
5 sn Because the phrase these things is plural, more than the temple’s destruction is in view. The question may presuppose that such a catastrophe signals the end.