Mark 13:25 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 13:25

the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

BSB

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ASV

and the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

KJV

And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

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Commentary

1 voice

Tertullian

AGAINST MARCION 4.39 (220)

If you examine this whole passage of Scripture from the inquiry of the disciples down to the parable of the fig tree, you will find that it makes sense at every point in connection with the coming of the Son of Man. He will bring both sorrow and joy. The Son of Man is coming in the midst of both calamities and promises, both the grief of nations and the longing of the saints. He is the common element in both.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

This part of our Lord's prophecy on the Mount of Olives is entirely unfulfilled. The events described in it are all yet to take place. They may possibly take place in our own day. The passage therefore is one which we ought always to read with peculiar interest. Let us observe, in the first place, what solemn majesty will attend our Lord Jesus Christ's second coming to this world . The language that is used about the sun, moon, and stars, conveys the idea of some universal convulsion of the universe at the close of the present dispensation.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

We cannot therefore consider the mere strength of this language a proof that it refers exclusively or primarily to the precursors of the final day, though of course in "that day" it will have its most awful fulfilment.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
ἀστέρες	asteres	stars	G792 →
ἔσονται	esontai	will be	G1510 →
ἐκ	ek	out of	G1537 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
οὐρανοῦ	ouranou	heaven	G3772 →
πίπτοντες,	piptontes	falling,	G4098 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
αἱ	hai	the	G3588 →
δυνάμεις	dunameis	powers	G1411 →
αἱ	hai	that [are]	G3588 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
οὐρανοῖς	ouranois	heavens	G3772 →
σαλευθήσονται.	saleuthēsontai	will be shaken.’	G4531 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 34:4
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig…
leads to
- Matthew 24:29
  Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 6:13–14
  and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.
- Ezekiel 32:7–8
  When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
- Joel 3:15
  The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
- Mark 13:24–25
  But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
Through
Revelation 6:13
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.
leads to
- Isaiah 34:4
  All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig…
- Revelation 9:1
  Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.
- Revelation 8:10–12
  Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Mark

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Mark