Mark 13:37
These words that I am saying to you disciples I am saying to everyone who believes in me: Always be ready!” That is what Jesus warned his disciples.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
In Context
36May it not happen that when I come suddenly, I will find that you are not ready!
Cross References
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 12:41Peter said, “Lord, are you (sg) speaking this illustration only for us or for everyone else also?”
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 →