Mark 13:33

Take heed, stay awake and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

32“But concerning that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

34It is like a man going away on a journey, having left his house and having given authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:42Watch therefore, for you do not know in what hour your Lord is coming.

Matthew 26:40Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What? Were you not strong enough to watch with Me one hour?

Mark 13:35Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—at evening, or at midnight, or at dawn, or early in the morning—

Luke 12:40Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour that you think not, the Son of Man comes.”

Romans 13:11And do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for us to be roused out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

1 Corinthians 16:13Be watchful, stand fast in the faith, be courageous, be strong.

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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