Mark 13:34
For as a man who hath journeyed, and left his house, and hath given authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and the door-keeper he hath instructed to be watchful;
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
33Look: be watchful and pray; for you know not when the time is.
Cross References
Matthew 16:19To thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.
Matthew 25:14FOR as a man who journeyed called his servants, and delivered to them his property:
Luke 19:12And he said, A certain man of a noble house went into a distant country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Acts 20:29For I know that after I shall have gone, there will enter with you furious wolves which will not spare the flock.
Romans 13:6On this account also give we tribute to them; for they are the servants of Aloha over these things constituted.
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 →