Mark 13:33

Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

32But of that day or that hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father.

34It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:42Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.

Matthew 26:40And he comes to the disciples, and sees that they are sleeping, and says to Peter, What, were you not able to keep watch with me one hour?

Mark 13:35So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;

Luke 12:40So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.

Romans 13:11See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

1 Corinthians 16:13Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.

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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