<p>13:3 <i>And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately</i>- The private enquiry was because the Lord had just stated something dangerously illegal. Martin Hengel concludes that the early Gospel records were so radical that they would&rsquo;ve been part of an &ldquo;underground literature&rdquo;. He suggests that the Roman law forbidding oral or written prophecies about the fall of the Roman empire- on pain of death- was enough to make the Olivet prophecy alone a highly illegal document.</p>