Mark 13:2
And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
KJV
καὶ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτῷ· βλέπεις ταύτας τὰς μεγάλας οἰκοδομάς; οὐ μὴ ἀφεθῇ λίθος ἐπὶ λίθον. ὃς οὐ μὴ καταλυθῇ.
Greek NT
Et respondens Jesus, ait illi : Vides has omnes magnas ædificationes ? Non relinquetur lapis super lapidem, qui non destruatur.
Vulgate
And Jesus said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left here one stone upon another, which shall not be thrown down.
ASV
And Jesus answering, said to him: Seest thou all these great buildings? There shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.
Douay-Rheims
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In this verse
In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- Ἰησοῦς — SBLGNT
- Ἰησοῦς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἀποκριθεὶς — Robinson-Pierpont
- ὧδε — SBLGNT
- ὧδε — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- λίθον — SBLGNT
- λίθον — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- λίθῷ — Robinson-Pierpont
Prophecy
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
THE KEY BOOK for the Olivet Discourse. Josephus describes Titus's siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 in extraordinary detail: the three walls of the city, the Temple complex (the most detailed ancient description of the Second Temple), the famine, the crucifixions outside the walls, the breaching of the outer walls. Every detail corresponds to Jesus's prophecy: "not one stone shall be…
The climactic book: the burning of the Second Temple on the 9th/10th of Ab, AD 70 — the same date (according to tradition) as the destruction of Solomon's Temple in 586 BC. Josephus describes portents and signs that preceded the destruction: a star resembling a sword stood over the city, a light shone around the altar, the eastern gate of the Temple opened of its own accord, ch…
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 9:7 — Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all
- Dan 9:26 — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be wi
- Jer 26:18 — Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shal
- Luke 19:44 — And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
- Luke 21:6 — As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
- Luke 21:6 — As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
- Matt 24:2 — And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
- Mic 3:12 — Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.