Mark 13:36
Least if he come suddenly, he should finde you sleeping.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
In Context
37And those things that I say vnto you, I say vnto all men, Watch.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:9Howe long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggarde? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?
Song of Solomon 3:1In my bed by night I sought him that my soule loued: I sought him, but I found him not.
Isaiah 56:10Their watchmen are all blinde: they haue no knowledge: they are all dumme dogs: they can not barke: they lie and sleepe and delite in sleeping.
Matthew 25:5Nowe while the bridegrome taried long, all slumbred and slept.
Mark 14:40And he returned, and founde them a sleepe againe: for their eyes were heauie: neither knewe they what they should answere him.
Luke 22:45And he rose vp from prayer, and came to his disciples, and found them sleeping for heauinesse.
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 →