Mark 13:33

Keep watch! Stay awake! For you don't know when this will happen.

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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

32No one knows the day or hour when this will happen—not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son; only the Father knows.

34It's like a man who went away on a journey. He left his house, and gave each of his servants the authority to do what he told them. He told the doorkeeper to stay awake.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:42So stay alert, because you don't know what day your Lord is coming.

Matthew 26:40He went back to the disciples and found them asleep. He said to Peter, “What, you couldn't stay awake with me for just one hour?

Mark 13:35So keep watch, because you don't know when the owner of the house is coming back. It may be in the evening, in the middle of the night, before dawn, or in the morning.

Luke 12:40You must also be ready, for the Son of man is coming when you don't expect him.”

Romans 13:11You should do this because you realize how urgent the time is—that it's high time for you to wake up from your sleep. For salvation is closer to us now than when we first put our trust in God.

1 Corinthians 16:13Stay alert. Stand firm in your trust in God. Take courage. 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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