Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Matthew 24:42
Watch - Be looking for his coming. Be expecting it as near; as a great event; as coming in an unexpected manner. Watch the signs of his coming, and be ready.
Watch - Be looking for his coming. Be expecting it as near; as a great event; as coming in an unexpected manner. Watch the signs of his coming, and be ready.
MATTHEW 24:42 h`me,ra| {B} Instead of h`me,ra|, which is strongly supported by a B D W D Q S ¦13 _al,_ the Textus Receptus, following E F G H...
Verse 42. _WATCH THEREFORE_] Be always on your guard, that you may not be taken unawares, and that you may be properly prepared to meet God in the way either of _judgment_ or _mercy_, whensoever he ma...
12. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE; THE KING REVEALS THE FUTURE OF THE KINGDOM. Chapter s 24-25. CHAPTER 24 1. The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. (Matthew 24:1 .) 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mat...
MATTHEW 24:42 TO MATTHEW 25:13. Abbreviating Mark 13:33, with its simile of the absent householder, into one verse (Matthew 24:42; _cf._
THE VISION OF THINGS TO COME (Matthew 24:1-31) We have already seen that it is one of the great characteristics of Matthew that he gathers together in large blocks the teaching of Jesus about differe...
Watch, therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord comes. Understand this--that if the householder had known at what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have been awake, and he...
WATCH. As in 1 Thessalonians 5:6 and 1 Thessalonians 5:10 ("wake")....
THE COMING OF CHRIST; THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS More briefly reported in Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36...
VER 42. "WATCH THEREFORE: FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH COME. 43. BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN IN WHAT WATCH THE THIEF WOULD COME, HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED, AND WO...
_THIS GENERATION SHALL NOT PASS MATTHEW 24:34-44_ : Jesus said you can use leaves coming on a fig tree to know that summer is near. He used that illustration to let the people know that the desolation...
ΓΡΗΓΟΡΕΊΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΈΩ (G1127) сторожить. Это слово имеет этический и религиозный оттенок (Luz). _Praes. imper._ указывает на постоянное бдение. ΠΟΊΣΙ _dat. от_ ΠΟΙΟΣ (G4169) как...
III. CHRIST'S SECOND COMING (24:36-25:46) A. The Date Known but to God (24:36) (Parallel: Mark 13:32) 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but...
B. Stories Illustrating Important Features of the Final End-Times 1. Illustration From Life Before the Flood: Business As Usual (24:37-42) Matthew 24:37 AND AS WERE THE DAYS OF NOAH, SO SHALL BE THE C...
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best appreh...
29-31 Compare Mar_13:24-26; Luk_21:26-27. 29 See Rev_6:12-17; Isa_13:10; Joe_2:30-31; Joe_3:15; Amo_5:20. 29 Israel goes through the great affliction, and watches for the Son of Mankind, Who will sta...
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD FORETOLD 1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way, and his disciples,' etc. THE BUILDINGS] The magnificent...
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THE END OF THE WORLD (Mark 13:8; Luke 21:7). Many of the most serious difficulties of this great discourse disappear when it is realised that our Lo...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 JESUS TELLS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE *TEMPLE 24:1-2 V1 Then Jesus left the *Temple. He was walking away when his *disciples came u...
CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...
_Watch therefore_ (_cf._ Luke 17:26-30; Luke 17:34-36)....
γρηγορεῖτε, watch, a frequently recurring exhortation, implying not merely an uncertain but a delayed _Parusia_, tempting to be off guard, and so making such repeated exhortations necessary. ποίᾳ ἡμέρ...
WATCH AND WORK Matthew 24:40-51 There are many comings of the Son of man before the final one to judgment. We may derive the full benefit of our Lord's words, even though we have arrived at no settl...
Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building would be demolished so that no single stone would be left u...
(11) Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. (11) An example of the horrible carelessness of men in those things in which they ought to be most careful....
Watch ye, therefore. That men might not be attentive for a time only, but preserve a continual vigilance, the Almighty conceals from them the hour of dissolution: they ought therefore to be ever expec...
CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin
"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (38) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until th...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
42._Watch therefore. _In Luke the exhortation is more pointed, or, at least, more special, _Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and t...
We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position of...
WATCH THEREFORE,.... Since the time of this desolation is so uncertain, and since it will come upon the Jews unawares, and some wilt escape, whilst others perish; for the words are plainly an inferenc...
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Ver. 42. _Watch therefore, &c._] _Laeti simus, non securi_ Let us be happy, not carefree. (Bernard). While Ishbosheth slept upon his be...
_Watch therefore_ Let your mind be thoroughly awake to a sense of the certainty and importance of these things, and be on your guard that they may not overtake you unawares, but that you may be prepar...
YE KNOW NOT; this was true with regard to the destruction of Jerusalem. It is also true with regard to each one's death; and it will be true with regard to the day of judgment. The day of our death, a...
THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS. A summary:...
WATCH THEREFORE; FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH COME....
He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the w...
42-51 To watch for Christ's coming, is to maintain that temper of mind which we would be willing that our Lord should find us in. We know we have but a little time to live, we cannot know that we hav...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:44"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV "Watch ye therefore, for ye know not in what day your Lord shall come."[568] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V and for this cause did the Lord command His disciples...
Matthew 24:42 Watch G1127 (G5720) therefore G3767 for G3754 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) what G4169 hour...
WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-51). a Introduction in which Jesus declares that the Temple will be utterly destroyed (Matthew 24:...
“Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord comes.” So in view of this suddenness and unexpectedness of His coming all His own people are to be on watch, because they do not know when...
Matthew 24:42. WATCH THEREFORE. In view of the suddenness and unexpectedness of this coming, ‘watch.' Mark: ‘watch and pray.' Not, be always expecting what will come unexpectedly, nor be seeking to kn...
WATCH THEREFORE (γρηγωρειτε ουν). A late present imperative from the second perfect εγρηγορα from εγειρω. Keep awake, be on the watch "therefore" because of the uncertainty of the time of the second...
Matthew 24:42 Who are they that watch? What are the marks, it may be asked, that we are awake, and, according to our duty, looking out always for the coming of Christ, and of death as his messenger?...
Matthew 24:42. _Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come._ That he will come, is certain. That his coming may be at any moment, is equally sure; and, therefore, we ought to be a...
CONTENTS: Destruction of the temple foretold. The course of the present age outlined; its culmination in the great tribulation and followed by the return of Christ in power and glory. Parable of the f...
Matthew 24:1. _The buildings of the temple._ Herod had gradually rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the second t...
WATCH OUT, THEN. Be prepared! If the Lord should come tonight [or if you should die] be ready to meet him!...
_Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come: _ THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN I. The warning. Christ’s coming is compared to that of a thief in the night. Seems disparaging, but is...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:42 STAY AWAKE. On readiness for Christ’s return, see 1 Thessalonians 5:1;...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:1 The Delay, Return, and Judgment of the Messiah. These two chapters are often called the “Olivet Discourse” because Jesus “sat on the Mount of Olives” when he spoke these w...
Jesus tells about his return Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36; Luke 12:39-46;...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 24:36_ The uncertainty of the end.—We ought to know the season, we cannot know the moment, of the “appearing” of Christ. So the Saviour teaches us here. “Of...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 24:1 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END. ...
Now Jesus went out (Matthew 24:1), Left the house desolate. He is rejected now. They've rejected Him, now He has rejected them. Leave the house desolate; you're not going to see me again until you ar...
1 Corinthians 16:13; 1 Peter 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:6;...
What hour. Later texts, however, read hJmera, day. poia hJmera, in what kind of day, whether a near or a remote one. Similarly ver 43 ejn poia fulakh, in what kind of a watch, whether a night or a mor...
Ye know not what hour your Lord cometh — Either to require your soul of you, or to avenge himself of this nation. Mark 13:33; Luke 12:35; Luke 21:34....
Here we have the application made by our Saviour, of the foregoing doctrine concerning the certainty and suddenness of. future judgment. WATCH THEREFORE, always; not without intermission, but without...