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Find you sleeping - Inattentive to your post, neglecting your duty, and unprepared for his coming.
The Eschatologieal Discourse. The first two verses contain our Lord's prediction of the fall of Jerusalem. To the Jews, such an anticipation would...
sleeping . composing yourselves for sleep (voluntarily). Greek. katheudo. See notes on 1 Thessalonians 4:14 , and 1 Thessalonians 5:6 . Not koi...
DISCOURSE: 1454 THE DUTY OF WATCHFULNESS ENFORCED Mark 13:32-36 . But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in...
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. He find you sleeping - A porter asleep exposes the house to be robbed, and well deserves punishment. No wo...
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. Lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. See the notes at Luke 12:35-40 ; Luke 12:42-46 .
Great Prophecy of the Fall of Jerusalem and of the End of the World 1-37. Christ's great prophecy ( Matthew 24:1 ; Luke 21:5 ). See on Mt.
(32-37) But of that day and that hour. — See Notes on Matthew 24:36-41 . Neither the Son. — The addition to St. Matthew’s report is every way r...
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. — As before we traced a kind of echo of the parable of the Talents, so here we recognise something like...
“Watch!” Mark 13:14-37 The fall of Jerusalem, Mark 13:14-23 . This abomination had been predicted by Daniel, Daniel 9:27 , Josephus says t...
A casual remark from the lips of one of the disciples drew from Jesus words full of solemnity and full of hope. This stately building was to be destr...
(33) Take ye heed, watch and pray for ye know not when the time is. (34) For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, a...
THE MASTER’S COMING ‘Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or i...
Lest coming suddenly ,.... Unthought of, and unexpected, at an unawares: he find you sleeping ; inactive in the exercise of grace, and negligent i...
Take ye heed Of every thing that would unfit you for your Master's coming, that might lull you into a fatal security, and render you negligent and...
Watchfulness Inculcated. 28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch...
The Advancement of the Kingly Rule of God In The Midst Of The Battering of History: Preliminary Troubles - The Good News Proclaimed Among All Nation...
The Disciples Are To Watch For His Coming (13:28-37). Jesus now stressed the inevitability of ‘these things' that He has described as needing to h...
“Take heed, watch and pray. For you do not know when the time is. It is as when a man, temporarily living in another country, having left his house a...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Mark 13:35 . Watch ye .— Be ye wakeful .—A military image. Don’t be caught napping at your post. Same word in Mar...
Mark 13:35-36 What does the word Watchfulness mean, as used in the Holy Scriptures? It means, being on the look-out, living in expectation of Jesu...
Mark 13:2 . There shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. When the Chaldeans burned the temple, that part called...
And to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Christian watchfulness I. A certain event referred to. That He should go away was...
Watch ye, therefore. Watchfulness, a preparation for the coming of Christ I. What we are to understand by the coming of the master of the house...
EXPOSITION Mark 13:1 And as he went forth out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him Master, behold, what manner, of stones a...
The time of the last day:
lest, coming suddenly, He find you sleeping.
1 Thessalonians 5:6 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:7 ; Ephesians 5:14 ; Isaiah 56:10 ; Luke 21:34 ; Luke 22:45 ; Mark 14:37 ; Mark 14:40 ; Matthew 24:4...
36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.