Mark 13:36
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Mark 13:36 in other translations
| BSB | Otherwise, he may arrive without notice and find you sleeping. |
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| WEB | lest, coming suddenly, he might find you sleeping. |
| ASV | lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. |
| YLT | lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping; |
| DARBY | lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. |
| BBE | For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping. |
| Webster | Lest coming suddenly, he should find you sleeping. |
What does Mark 13:36 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
(v) "sleeping" Mt 25:5
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 13:28-37
We have the application of this prophetic sermon. As to the destruction of Jerusalem, expect it to come very shortly. As to the end of the world, do not inquire when it will come, for of that day and that hour knoweth no man. Christ, as God, could not be ignorant of anything; but the Divine wisdom which dwelt in our Saviour, communicated itself to his human soul according to the Divine pleasure. As to both, our duty…
Mark 13:36 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Mark 13:36
- 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
- Matthew 24:48-51
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
- Romans 13:11-14
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
- Mark 14:40
And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.
- Matthew 25:5
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
- Proverbs 24:33-34
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
- Mark 14:37
And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
- Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
- Song of Solomon 5:2
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
- Luke 22:45
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
- Proverbs 6:9-11
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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Context
- Mark 13:35
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
- Mark 13:36
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
- Mark 13:37
And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Mark 13:36 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque cuando viniere de repente, no os halle durmiendo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | de peur qu’arrivant tout à coup, il ne vous trouve dormant. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | damit er nicht, plötzlich kommend, euch schlafend finde. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ne, cum venerit repente, inveniat vos dormientes. |