[6] Arthur Carr reports that in descending the Kedron Valley, to the east of the temple, and then ascending the slope of the Mount of Olives, the disciples could look back and see "the Temple [rising] with its colonnade of dazzling white marble, surmounted with golden roof and pinnacles, and founded on a substructure of huge stones".

[8] The prediction follows the sentiments expressed by Jesus in Matthew 23:37–38: Methodism's founder John Wesley says that the prediction was "most punctually fulfilled" in that the majority of the temple buildings were burned and then dug up on the orders of the invading Roman general Titus in 70 AD.

[9] Jesus and his disciples then proceed to the Mount of Olives, where a conversation occurs about "the end of the age".

[2] Dale Allison divides Jesus' warnings into three groups: This verse reads 'I am Christ', lacking the definite article, in the Geneva Bible (1599),[11] the King James Version,[12] and the New Matthew Bible [13] (a modernised version of the New Testament of William Tyndale).

[14] Carr (1882 onwards) observes that "the Christ, the Messiah" is correct, departing from the King James Version then in use.