Mark 13:36
lest having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
In Context
37And what I say to you I say to all, watch!
Cross References
Proverbs 6:9How long will thou sleep, O sluggard? When will thou arise out of thy sleep?
Song of Solomon 3:1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.
Matthew 25:5Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
Mark 14:40And having returned, he found them again sleeping, for their eyes were weighed down, and they knew not what they should reply to him.
Luke 22:45And after rising up from his prayer, having come to the disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow.
Matthew Henry on Mark 13:29-37
Watchfulness Inculcated. 28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: 29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. 30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven,… Read the whole commentary →