Mark 13:36
May it not happen that when I come suddenly, I will find that you are not ready!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 6:9But, you lazy loafer, how long will you continue to sleep [RHQ]? Are you never going to get up from sleeping and go to work?
Song of Solomon 3:1All through the night while I lay on my bed, I longed for the one whom I love. I desired for him to come, but he did not come.
Isaiah 56:10The Israeli leaders should be like watchdogs to protect the people, but it is as though they are blind. They are stupid. They are all like [MET] dogs that cannot bark. Good watchdogs bark when strangers approach, but the Israeli leaders do not warn the people that their enemies are coming. Instead, they just want to lie down and sleep and dream.
Matthew 25:5The bridegroom was delayed, and it became late at night. So all the virgins became sleepy and fell asleep.
Mark 14:40When he returned, he found that they were sleeping again because they were so sleepy that they could not keep their eyes open. Because they were ashamed, they did not know what to say to him when he awakened them.
Luke 22:45When he got up from praying, he returned to his disciples. He found that they were sleeping. They were exhausted because they were very sorrowful.
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 →