And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
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But what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.
Rabbinic commentary
How the Hebraic tradition has read this verse: and Marcus Brown’s own reading of it.
Mark: The Gospel of the servant in motion. The narrative hinges at Peter's confession (8:27). Before: the Servant revealed. After: the Servant suffers.
The walk8
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.
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Mark 13:33Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.
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And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.”
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
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Mark 13:35Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.
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Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches7
So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
“Lord,” said Peter, “are You addressing this parable to us, or to everyone else as well?”
Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.
But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
Voices5
Watch therefore, and pray, that you do not sleep unto death. For your former good deeds will not profit you if in the end of your life you go astray from the true faith.
Apostolic Constitutions· CONSTITUTIONS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES 7.2.31, 380patristic
And what I say unto you,.... The four disciples, Peter, James, John, and Andrew; who came privately to him, and put to him the questions, which occasioned this long discourse; see Mar 13:3. I say unto all.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
I say unto all, Watch - This command was proper, not only for those who were expecting the calamities that were soon to come upon the Jews, but for all who are soon to die and to go to the judgment. We know not the time of our death. We know not how soon we shall be called to the judgment. The Son of man may come at any moment, and we should therefore be ready.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
“But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.
J.C. Ryle· Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition), 1857Reformed Evangelical / Low-Church Anglican / Calvinist / 19th-c. Protestant Reformation heir
And what I say unto you--this discourse, it will be remembered, was delivered in private. I say unto all, Watch--anticipating and requiring the diffusion of His teaching by them among all His disciples, and its perpetuation through all time.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
