The Harmony of the Gospels

¹⁴⁹ In like manner, what Matthew states thus, “When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, whoso reads let him understand,” is put in the following form by Mark: “But when you shall see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not, let him that reads understand.” But though the phrase is thus altered, the sense conveyed is the same. For the point of the clause “where it ought not,” is that the abomination of desolation ought not to be in the holy place. Luke's method of putting it, again, is neither, “And when you shall see the abomination of desolation stand in the holy place,” nor “where it ought not,” but, “And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed with an army, then know that the desolation thereof is near.” At that time, therefore, will the abomination of desolation be in the holy place.