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Mark 13

Mark 13:1

AND AS HE WENT OUT OF THE TEMPLE, ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES SAITH UNTO HIM, MASTER, SEE WHAT MANNER OF STONES AND WHAT BUILDINGS ARE HERE!... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:2

AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO HIM, SEEST THOU THESE GREAT BUILDINGS? THERE SHALL NOT BE LEFT ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER THAT SHALL NOT BE THROWN DOWN. The Temple built by Herod to take the place of that erected by the Jews under Zerubbabel and restored and embellished under Judas Maccabaeus, was, so f... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:3

AND AS HE SAT UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES OVER AGAINST THE TEMPLE, PETER AND JAMES AND JOHN AND ANDREW ASKED HIM PRIVATELY,... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:7

AND WHEN YE SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS, BE YE NOT TROUBLED; FOR SUCH THINGS MUST NEEDS BE; BUT THE END SHALL NOT BE YET. v 8. FOR NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM; AND THERE SHALL BE EARTHQUAKES IN DIVERS PLACES, AND THERE SHALL BE FAMINES AND TROUBLES. These... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:9

BUT TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES; FOR THEY SHALL DELIVER YOU UP TO COUNCILS; AND IN THE SYNAGOGUES YE SHALL BE BEATEN; AND YE SHALL BE BROUGHT BEFORE RULERS AND KINGS FOR MY SAKE, FOR A TESTIMONY AGAINST THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:11

BUT WHEN THEY SHALL LEAD YOU AND DELIVER YOU UP, TAKE NO THOUGHT BEFOREHAND WHAT YE SHALL SPEAK, NEITHER DO YE PREMEDITATE; BUT WHATSOEVER SHALL BE GIVEN YOU IN THAT HOUR, THAT SPEAK YE; FOR IT IS NOT YE THAT SPEAK, BUT THE HOLY GHOST. Incessant watchfulness, untiring vigilance, the Lord enjoins upo... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:12

NOW THE BROTHER SHALL BETRAY THE BROTHER TO DEATH AND THE FATHER THE SON; AND CHILDREN SHALL RISE UP AGAINST THEIR PARENTS, AND SHALL CAUSE THEM TO BE PUT TO DEATH.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:13

AND YE SHALL BE HATED OF ALL MEN FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. BUT HE THAT SHALL ENDURE UNTO THE END, THE SAME SHALL BE SAVED. There is no hatred so unrelenting and implacable as that caused by enmity against Christ. It destroys the firmest friendships, it severs the ties of the closest blood-relationship. Br... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:14

BUT WHEN YE SHALL SEE THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL THE PROPHET STANDING WHERE IT OUGHT NOT, (LET HIM THAT READETH UNDERSTAND,) THEN LET THEM THAT BE IN JUDEA FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS;... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:15

AND LET HIM THAT IS ON THE HOUSETOP NOT GO DOWN INTO THE HOUSE, NEITHER ENTER THEREIN TO TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF HIS HOUSE;... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:16

AND LET HIM THAT IS IN THE FIELD NOT TURN BACK AGAIN FOR TO TAKE UP HIS GARMENT. The Lord here mentions some of the signs that would presage especially the destruction of the Temple and of the city. It makes little difference, so far as the actual point and object of the admonition is concerned, whe... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:19

FOR IN THOSE DAYS SHALL BE AFFLICTION, SUCH AS WAS NOT FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION WHICH GOD CREATED UNTO THIS TIME, NEITHER SHALL BE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:20

AND EXCEPT THAT THE LORD HAD SHORTENED THOSE DAYS, NO FLESH SHOULD BE SAVED; BUT FOR THE ELECT'S SAKE, WHOM HE HATH CHOSEN, HE HATH SHORTENED THE DAYS. The prophecy of Christ here becomes so vivid that the apostles had the whole picture before their mind's eye; the precipitate flight, the fear and t... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:22

FOR FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS SHALL RISE, AND SHALL SHOW SIGNS AND WONDERS, TO SEDUCE, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, EVEN THE ELECT.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:23

BUT TAKE YE HEED: BEHOLD, I HAVE FORETOLD YOU ALL THINGS. A second warning against the insidiousness and impertinence of the false teachers. They came in those days, in increasing numbers, political Messiahs that promised deliverance from the yoke of the Romans. Their apparent sincerity, the power o... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:27

AND THEN SHALL HE SEND HIS ANGELS, AND SHALL GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH TO THE UTTERMOST PART OF HEAVEN. The evangelist's account is only a brief summary of the words of the Lord, but what depth of emotion is in the few words thus recorded! As... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:28

NOW LEARN A PARABLE OF THE FIG-TREE; WHEN HER BRANCH IS YET TENDER, AND PUTTETH FORTH LEAVES, YE KNOW THAT SUMMER IS NEAR;... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:31

HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY; BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY. In the matter of the proper state of preparedness against the coming of the Lord the fig-tree is used to teach a lesson. When its branch becomes soft and full of sap, and when its leaves come forth, then men have a sure indication t... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:32

BUT OF THAT DAY AND THAT HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN, NO, NOT THE ANGELS WHICH ARE IN HEAVEN, NEITHER THE SON, BUT THE FATHER.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:34

FOR THE SON OF MAN IS AS A MAN TAKING A FAR JOURNEY, WHO LEFT HIS HOUSE, AND GAVE AUTHORITY TO HIS SERVANTS, AND TO EVERY MAN HIS WORK, AND COMMANDED THE PORTER TO WATCH.... [ Continue Reading ]

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 COCK-CROWING, OR IN THE MORNING,... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 13:37

AND WHAT I SAY UNTO YOU I SAY UNTO ALL, WATCH. With so much information given them, the disciples might have thought that they ought to know the exact date of Christ's second advent, for that would greatly simplify matters. But Christ rejects the idea before it has been voiced. Of the day when the f... [ Continue Reading ]

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