Mark 13:23
Be alert! Remember that I have warned you about all this before it happens.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
In Context
24After the time when people suffer like that, the sun will become dark, the moon will not shine,
Cross References
Isaiah 44:7If there is anyone like me [RHQ], he should proclaim it! He should speak and tell me now! He should tell what has happened since I caused my people of Israel to become a nation long ago, and he should also tell what things will happen; he should predict what will happen in the future.
Mark 13:5Jesus replied to them, “ I cannot give you a simple answer to your questions. All I will say is, beware that no one deceives you concerning what will happen!
Mark 13:33So be ready, like people who are waiting for an important man to come, because you do not know when that time will come when all these events will happen!
Luke 21:34“But be on guard. Do not be getting drunk with carousing or let yourselves be distracted by worries concerning your lives [SYN] {or let worries concerning your lives [SYN] distract you}. If you do wrong things like those, you may be suddenly surprised by my return [MTY], like a trap suddenly catches an animal in it.
John 16:1Jesus continued by saying to us, “I have told you these things in order that you will not stop trusting in me when people ◄ cause you to suffer/persecute you►.
Matthew Henry on Mark 13:15-24
The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. 14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains: 15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: 16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. 17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give… Read the whole commentary →