Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)
Matthew 24:43-51
Two parables: the Thief and the Two Servants, enforcing the lesson: Watch!
Two parables: the Thief and the Two Servants, enforcing the lesson: Watch!
Verse 43. _IF THE GOOD MAN OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN_] "As a _master_ of a _family_ who expected a _thief_ at _any time_ of the _night_, would take care to be _awake_, and ready to protect his house; so...
BUT KNOW THIS ... - If a man knew the hour, or “about the hour,” when a robber would come, he would be ready for him. So you know not the exact hour, but you know it is near, when the Son of man will...
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...
GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE. master of the house. WOULD COME. is coming....
The Lord cometh as a Thief in the Night Luke 12:39-40 43. _know this_ The same word as in Matthew 24:33, see note. The word is probably indicative, "ye know this," not imperative. _the goodman of th...
THE LORD COMETH AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT Luke 12:39-40...
The unclassical διορυγῆναι, which however is read in B and several uncials, gives place to διορυχθῆναι (Hdt. Plat. Xen.). 43. ΓΙΓΝΏΣΚΕΙΝ, ‘to observe,’ ‘learn,’ ‘recognise,’ not ‘to know’ (εἰδέναι, ἐ...
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...
ΈΚΕΊΝΟ _n._ это, относится к последующему (BD, 151f). ΓΝΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ _praes. ind._ или _imper. act., см._ Matthew 24:39. ΕΊ (G1487) с _ind._ и ΆΝ (G302) вводит _conj._, противоречащее факту. ΉΔΕΝ _plperf...
BUT KNOW THIS, THAT, &C.— _But consider that if,_ &c. Heylin....
2. ILLUSTRATION OF THE BURGLAR (24:43F.) 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house t...
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...
24:43 coming, (a-19) Lit. 'is coming.'...
AN EXHORTATION TO FAITHFULNESS AND WATCHFULNESS ADDRESSED SPECIALLY TO THE APOSTLES AND OTHER CHIEF MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH (Luke 12:39). It appropriately closes the discourse, but whether it really b...
THE GOODMAN (RV 'master') OF THE HOUSE] i.e. in the application of the parable, the Apostles, and their successors in posts of authority in the Church. THE THIEF] i.e. on account of the suddenness and...
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...
BUT KNOW THIS. — The verses from Matthew 24:42 to Matthew 24:51 have nothing corresponding to them in the reports of the discourse given by St. Mark and St. Luke, but are found almost verbatim in anot...
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 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...
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...
Matthew 24:43._If the householder had known. _Luke relates this discourse of Christ at a different place from Matthew; and we need not wonder at this, for in the twelfth chapter, where (as we have for...
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...
BUT KNOW THIS,.... Or you do know this: this may be illustrated by supposing a case well known to men, and in which common prudence would direct a man how to behave: THAT IF THE GOOD MAN OF THE HOUSE...
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Ver. 43. _He would not have...
_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...
BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN IN WHAT WATCH THE THIEF WOULD COME, HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED, AND WOULD NOT HAVE SUFFERED HIS HOUSE TO BE BROKEN UP....
THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS. A summary:...
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"....
Matthew 24:43 But G1161 know G1097 (G5719) this G1565 that G3754 if G1487 house G3617 known G1492 ...
IN THE LIGHT OF HIS SECOND COMING ALL ARE TO WATCH WISELY AND WORK FAITHFULLY (24:43-51). There now follow a series of parables in which Jesus stresses both the need to watch and the need to work. Ind...
“But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken through.” Here the master of the...
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:...
Matthew 24:43. IF THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN, etc. Comp. Obadiah 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-10 ; 2 Peter 3:10;...
IN WHAT WATCH (ποια φυλακη). As in Matthew 14:25 (four watches of the night).BROKEN THROUGH (διορυχθηνα). Digged through the tile roof or under the floor (dirt in the poorer houses)....
Matthew 24:43 The Uncertainty of Life the Great Reason for Holiness. I. With all our consciousness that there is great mercy in the concealment of the future, we cannot question that there would be f...
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...
IF THE MAN OF THE HOUSE KNEW. The thief does not call you up and tell you when he is coming. [Some think this means there will be _no signs at all_ to show the Second coming is near.] The idea of comi...
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 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Peter 3:10; 2 Peter 3:11; Exodus 22:2; Exodu
Would come [ε ρ χ ε τ α ι]. Rev., was coming. But the present is graphically thrown in as in vv. 40, 41 is coming or cometh. Broken up [δ ι ο ρ υ γ η ν α ι]. Rev., broken through. See on Matthew 6:19...