Mark 13:33
Be on guard; stay alert and pray! For you do not know when the time is coming.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
In Context
32“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven or the Son, but only the Father.
Cross References
Matthew 24:42Therefore keep watch, for you do not know in what hour your Lord is coming.
Matthew 26:40Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “So you could not keep watch with me for one hour?
Mark 13:35Therefore keep watch, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.
Luke 12:40Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not expect him.”
Romans 13:11And do this, knowing that the hour has now come for us to be awakened from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
1 Corinthians 16:13Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be men of courage, and 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 →