Luke 12:40
Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”
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In The King James Version
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
In Context
41Peter [Rock] said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
Cross References
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour + 25:13 Context: “The day that no man knows the day nor the hour;” This is a very Jewish reference to the only Festival day that is not defined, that is Yom Terurah ·Day of Shofar blast· (a shofar is a ram horn). This is because the festival starts on the first day of the seventh month of Ethanim, also called Tishri. Months are counted when the moon crests and starts anew, from waxing crest to waning crest. There is a possible four days in which this can occur. Therefore one must be constantly watching and listening for the watchman’s shofar blast that announces the start of the new month, and also starting the 7th month is the beginning of Yom Terurah ·Day of Shofar blast·! in which the Son of Man is coming.
Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
Matthew Henry on Luke 12:23-41
Inordinate Care Reproved. 22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26 If ye then be not able to do that… Read the whole commentary →