Mark 13:33

Watch! Keep alert! Pray! Because you do not know when that time will be.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

32“Now concerning that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels who are in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.

34It is like a man off on a journey, having left his house and given the authority to his slaves, and to each his work; and he commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:42So be watchful, because you (pl) do not know in what hour your Lord is coming.

Matthew 26:40Then He comes to the disciples and finds them sleeping, and He says to Peter: “So, you (pl.) were not able to watch with me one hour!

Mark 13:35Therefore be watchful, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming—at evening or at midnight or at cockcrow or early morning—

Luke 12:40Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of the Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

Romans 13:11Besides this, knowing the time, it is high time for us to be awakened from sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

1 Corinthians 16:13Watch! Stand firm 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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