<p>24:2&nbsp;<i>But he answered and said to them: Do you not see all these things?</i>- AV &quot;See ye not all these things?&quot;. Read this carefully. He doesn't say 'Do you see all these things?'. He uses the negative- 'Do you&nbsp;<i>not</i>&nbsp;see all these things?'. This isn't mere style or literary convention. To not see something means you do not see it. Let's not assume that &quot;all these things&quot; refers to the temple building. The Lord has just used the term in 23:36: &quot;All these things shall come upon this generation&quot;. And&nbsp;<i>pas tauta</i>, &quot;all things&quot;, runs as a triple refrain throughout the Olivet prophecy, concerning the 'all things' of the predicted time of crisis coming upon Israel (24:8,33,34). If reading in context means anything, the &quot;all things&quot; must refer not to the temple buildings, but to the &quot;all things&quot; of Jerusalem's coming judgment. The Lord is asking them: 'Do you not see / perceive that all these judgments &quot;all things&quot; must come upon these wonderful buildings you're showing Me? No? Then OK, I will spell out those &quot;all things&quot; in gruesome detail. Don't look at the world as it stands before you at this moment, but remember the &quot;all things&quot; of judgment to come which are spoken about them&quot;. The Lord has previously condemned the Jewish world for 'not seeing' and He is warning the disciples that again they may be so influenced by Judaism that they don't 'see' the judgments to come with the eye of faith in His word. See later in this verse on&nbsp;<i>Left here</i>.&nbsp;</p><p><i>Truly I say to you. There shall not be left here</i>- This again expands upon His previous use of this word in 23:38: &quot;Your house is&nbsp;<i>left</i>&nbsp;unto you desolate&quot;. He is asking the disciples to see with the eye of faith- that effectively, the great stones of the temple were already thrown down, the temple was already &quot;desolate&quot; (Gk. 'a deserted place').</p><p><i>One stone upon another</i>- The judgment of the leprous house (Lev. 14:41). At the time of the final assault on Jerusalem in AD69, Titus commanded that the temple was to be spared. But the Lord's words came true, just as all prophetic words will, despite every human effort to deny their power. Josephus claims that the gold of the temple melted and therefore each stone was prized apart to remove the gold.</p><p><i>Which shall not be thrown down</i>- There was a strong belief in Judaism that the temple would last eternally. Hence the disciples&rsquo; question about &ldquo;the end of the age&rdquo; was because for them, any talk about the end of the temple meant the end of the world. They are not therefore asking about different chronological events when they ask when this shall be, and what sign would indicate the end of the age (:3). This prophecy of the destruction of the temple implied an ending of the Mosaic law. Hence the same word translated &quot;thrown down&quot; is ascribed to Stephen when he was accused of preaching that the Lord Jesus would &quot;<i>destroy</i>&nbsp;this place and therefore change the customs which Moses delivered us&quot; (Acts 6:14). Paul uses the same word about his 'destruction' of the things of legalistic dependence on the law for salvation, by preaching salvation by grace in Jesus (Gal. 2:18). It is also the word used in 2 Cor. 5:1, a passage which seems to have some reference to the impending destruction of the temple and its replacement with the spiritual house of God's building: &quot;Our earthly house of this tabernacle be&nbsp;<i>destroyed</i>&nbsp;s.w. &quot;thrown down&quot;, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands...&quot;. All this would suggest that there was a changeover period envisaged between the Lord's death and the final ending of the jurisdiction of the Mosaic law. Seeing the end Lord ended the Law on the cross, this again is to be seen as a concession to the conservatism of the Jews.</p>