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LUKE 21:37 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 21:36Luke 21:38
And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives — each day in the temple, each evening on the Mount of Olives: the rhythm of the final week. The Mount of Olives as the nightly retreat communicates both the prayer practice and the Gethsemane context that will follow.

Church Fathers on Luke 21:37

What our Lord commanded in word, He confirms by His example. For He who bid us watch and pray before the coming of the Judge, and the uncertain end of each of us, as the time of His Passion drew near, is Himself instant in teaching, watching, and prayer. As it is said, And in the day time he was teaching in the temple, whereby He conveys by His own example, that it is a thing worthy of God, to watch, or by word and deed to point out the way of truth to our neighbor.

Bede · 8th century

But what were the things He taught, unless such as transcended the worship of the law?

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

Now the Evangelists are silent as to the greater part of Christ’s teaching; for whereas He preached for the space nearly of three years, all the teaching which they have written down would scarcely, one might say, suffice for the discourse of a single day. For out of a great many things extracting a few, they have given only a taste as it were of the sweetness of His teaching. But our Lord here instructs us, that we ought to address God at night and in silence, but in day…

Theophylact · 11th century
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