Mark 13:33

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

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

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 hour no man knoweth, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father. Nor the Son... Not that the Son of God is absolutely ignorant of the day of judgment, but that he knoweth it not, as our teacher; that is, he knoweth it not so as to teach it to us, as not being expedient.

34Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and gave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter to watch.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:42Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come.

Matthew 26:40And he cometh to his disciples and findeth them asleep. And he saith to Peter: What? Could you not watch one hour with me?

Mark 13:35Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning):

Luke 12:40Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son of man will come.

Romans 13:11And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

1 Corinthians 16:13Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

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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