“Scenic Tour?”

Matthew 24: 1: “And Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him.” Jesus had been going to Jerusalem every year for the last twenty years; what made the disciples think He wanted a guided tour now, in the last week of His life? It just goes to show how easily we believers can get distracted by peripheral things like buildings, possessions, and positions, while ignoring “the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness.” (Matthew 23: 23)