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42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Matthew 24:42

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Watch 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.

  • Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

  • Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

  • Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

  • Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 32-51)

We have here the practical application of the foregoing prediction; in general, we must expect and prepare for the events here foretold. I. We must expect them; “ Now learn a parable of the fig-tree , Matt. 24:32 , 33 . Now learn what use to make of the things you have heard; so observe and understand the signs of the times, and compare them with the predictions of the word, as from thence to fore…

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