Matthew 24:49
and so, he begins to strike his fellow servants, and he eats and drinks with the inebriated:
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
In Context
48But if that evil servant has said in his heart, ‘My lord has been delayed in returning,’
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Why have you kicked away my victims and my gifts, which I instructed to be offered in the temple? And why have you given more honor to your sons than to me, so that you eat the first-fruits of every sacrifice of my people Israel?
Isaiah 66:5Listen to the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word. Your brothers, who hate you and who cast you out because of my name, have said: “Let the Lord be glorified, and we will see by your rejoicing.” But they themselves will be confounded.
Micah 3:5Thus says the Lord about the prophets who seduce my people: They bite with their teeth and preach peace, and if anyone does not give something to their mouth, they sanctify a battle against him.
Romans 16:18For ones such as these do not serve Christ our Lord, but their inner selves, and, through pleasing words and skillful speaking, they seduce the hearts of the innocent.
Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction; their god is their belly; and their glory is in their shame: for they are immersed in earthly things.
1 Peter 5:3not so as to dominate by means of the clerical state, but so as to be formed into a flock from the heart.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:33-51
Parable of the Fig-Tree; Awful Predictions; The Duty of Watchfulness; The Good and Evil Steward. 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36 But of that day and hour knoweth… Read the whole commentary →