36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
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And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-38)Here, in the close of this discourse, I. Christ appoints his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by, if they had an eye to the foregoing directions, with as much certainty and assurance as they could judge of the approach of summer by the budding forth of the trees, Luke 21:29-31. As in the kingdom of nature there is a chain of causes, so in the kingdom of providenc…
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