Mark 13: 31–14: 2
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
About that day, or hour, no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Look, watch, pray, for you do not know when that time will come.
Likewise, someone, going on his way and leaving his house, gave his servants authority and each his own work, and ordered the gatekeeper to stay awake.
So watch, for you do not know when the master of the house will come: in the evening, or at midnight, or at the crowing of cocks, or in the morning;
so that, having come suddenly, he would not find you asleep.
And what I say to you, I say to all: stay awake.
Two days later, there was to be a feast of Easter and unleavened bread. And the chief priests and scribes were looking for how to take him by cunning and kill him;
but they said: just not on a holiday, lest there be an uproar among the people.
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'so that, having come suddenly, he would not find you sleeping.'
Explanatory Bible A.P. Lopukhina
Interpretation of a group of verses: Mark: 13: 36-36
The purpose of the wakefulness is indicated here, as before, in verse 35, the urge to wakefulness was indicated.
You must be awake - says Christ - so that the master, unexpectedly returning, does not find you asleep.
The state of sleep, of course, is taken here in a figurative sense - as moral lulling, as complete indifference to the higher questions of the soul.
Prepared by the rector of St. Nicholas Church Archpriest Roman Romanov.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
About that day, or hour, no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Look, watch, pray, for you do not know when that time will come.
Likewise, someone, going on his way and leaving his house, gave his servants authority and each his own work, and ordered the gatekeeper to stay awake.
So watch, for you do not know when the master of the house will come: in the evening, or at midnight, or at the crowing of cocks, or in the morning;
so that, having come suddenly, he would not find you asleep.
And what I say to you, I say to all: stay awake.
Two days later, there was to be a feast of Easter and unleavened bread. And the chief priests and scribes were looking for how to take him by cunning and kill him;
but they said: just not on a holiday, lest there be an uproar among the people.
======
'so that, having come suddenly, he would not find you sleeping.'
Explanatory Bible A.P. Lopukhina
Interpretation of a group of verses: Mark: 13: 36-36
The purpose of the wakefulness is indicated here, as before, in verse 35, the urge to wakefulness was indicated.
You must be awake - says Christ - so that the master, unexpectedly returning, does not find you asleep.
The state of sleep, of course, is taken here in a figurative sense - as moral lulling, as complete indifference to the higher questions of the soul.
Prepared by the rector of St. Nicholas Church Archpriest Roman Romanov.
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