upon the mount of Olives] Look in what place some fourtie years before the Jews took Christ, and brought him unto most cruell torments, in the selfe same place God himselfe stood to punish them most sharply, and as they had deserved: that Christ was taken in mount Olivet, see Joh. 18. Matthew 26:30.
a very great valley] So that out of all the parts of the world they shall see Jerusalem, which was before hid with this mountaine: and this he meaneth of the spirituall Jerusalem the Church, according to the prophecie, Isaiah 66:23. which Text sheweth an utter abolishing of Moses ceremonies: seeing all nations cannot come every week to Jerusalem.