{Over against the temple} (katenanti tou hierou). In full
view of the temple about which they had been speaking.
{Privately} (kat' idian). Peter and James and John and Andrew
(named only in Mark) had evidently been discussing the strange
comment of Jesus as they were coming out of the temple. In their
bewilderment they ask Jesus a bit to one side, though probably
all the rest drew up as Jesus began to speak this great
eschatological discourse.