Mark 13:34

As a man, going into another country, leaves his house, and gives authority to his servants, and to each one his own work, and commands the door-keeper to watch;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

In Context

33Take heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is.

35watch you therefore; for you know not when the master of the house comes, whether at evening, or at midnight, or at the crowing of the cock, or in the morning;

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Cross References

Matthew 16:19And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you shall bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 25:14For as a man, on leaving his country, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods:

Luke 19:12He said, therefore: A certain nobleman went into a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

Acts 20:29For I know this, that, after my departure, rapacious wolves will enter in among you, who will not spare the flock;

Romans 13:6On this very account, too, pay tribute also: for they are the public servants of God, attending continually to this very thing.

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 →

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