Mark 13:31

“For we desire to listen to Him who said: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.”” — editor's note: Cf. Matt. xxiv. 35; cf. Mark xiii. 31.

“For they all introduce it in their narratives, and that, too, in the same order.” — editor's note: Matt. xxiv. 3-xxv. 46; Mark xiii. 4–37; Luke xxi. 7–36.

“…any more at all:’ which is shewn in the language of the Gospels and Epistles: for example, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My word shall not perish: also the Apostle says, Behold the old things are passed away; they are become new.” — editor's note: St. Mark xiii. 31. In the Greek the same word παρέρχεσθαι is used in both cases, but Hilary uses transire in the first, praeterire in the second instance.

Under the example of a tree the Lord gave a pattern of the end, saying, “Now learn a parable of the fig tree, when her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near. So ye in like…

As if He had said, As when the fig tree puts forth its leaves, summer follows at once, so also after the woes of Antichrist, at once, without an interval, shall be the coming of Christ, who will be to the just as…

All that is said by the three Evangelists concerning the Advent of our Lord, if diligently compared together and examined, will perchance be found to belong to His daily coming in His body, that is, the Church,…

This fruitbearing of the fig tree may also be understood to mean the state of the synagogue, which was condemned to everlasting barrenness, because when the Lord came, it had no fruits of righteousness in those who…

Or else, the leaves which come forth are words now spoken, the summer at hand is the day of Judgment, in which every tree shall shew what it had within it, deadness for burning, or greenness to be planted with the…

By generation He either means the whole race of mankind, or specially the Jews.

Or else, “This generation shall not pass away,” that is, the generation of Christians, “until all things be fulfilled,” which were spoken concerning Jerusalem and the coming of Antichrist; for He does not mean the…

The heaven which shall pass away is not the ethereal or starry heaven, but the heaven where is the air. For wheresoever the water of the judgment could reach, there also, according to the words of the blessed Peter,…

Mark 13:31 and Luke 21:33 share the same wording (10 words).

Matthew 24:35 and Mark 13:31 share the same wording (13 words).

Cited together in Bede on Mark 13:28–31 (2) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Against Celsus V.22.

Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 13:28–31 (Catena Aurea).