Mark Chapter 13 verse 33 Holy Bible
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
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Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.
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Take heed, watch and pray, for ye do not know when the time is:
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Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
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Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.
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Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 33-37. - These exhortations, which gather up in a succinct form the practical bearing of the parallel passages and parables in St. Matthew, must not be understood as implying that our Lord's coming in judgment would be during the lifetime of his disciples. The preceding words would teach them plainly enough that the actual time of this coming was hidden from the. m. But the intention was that, while by the certainty of the event their faith and hope would be quickened, by the uncertainty of the time they might be left in a continual state of watchfulness and prayer. According to the Jewish reckoning, there were only three watches - namely, the first watch, from sunset to 10 p.m.; the second watch, from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.; and the third watch, from 2 a.m. to sunrise. But after the establishment of the Roman power in Judaea, these watches were divided into four; and were either described as the first, second, third, and fourth respectively; or, as here, by the terms even, beginning at six and ending at nine; midnight, ending at twelve; cockcrowing, ending at three; and morning, ending at six.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(33) Take ye heed.--Note once more the characteristic iteration of the warning. It would almost seem, from the very different conclusions of the discourse in the three Gospels, as if they had been based up to this point on a common document which then stopped and left them to a greater divergency of memory or tradition. The omission of St. Matthew's reference to the history of Noah is, perhaps, characteristic of St. Mark's as a Gentile Gospel.
