A man taking a far journey [α ν θ ρ ω π ο ς α π ο δ η μ ο ς]. The A. V. is incorrect, since the idea is not that of a man about to go, as Matthew 25:14; but of one already gone. So Wyc., gone far in pilgrimage; and Tynd., which is gone into a strange country. The two words form one notion - a man abroad. Rev., sojourning in another country.
Verse Mark 13:34. _LEFT HIS HOUSE_] οικιαν, _family_. Our blessed Lord and Master, when he ascended to heaven, commanded his servants to be _faithful_ and _watchful_. This fidelity to which he exhort...
WHO LEFT HIS HOUSE - The word “house” often means family. Our Saviour here represents himself as going away, leaving his household the church, assigning to the apostles and all his servants their duty...
CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Destruction of the Temple Predicted. (Mark 13:1 .Matthew 24:1; Luke 21:5)_ 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mark 13:3 .
THE ESCHATOLOGIEAL DISCOURSE. The first two verses contain our Lord's prediction of the fall of Jerusalem. To the Jews, such an anticipation would seem blasphemous (_cf._ Acts 6:14). The discourse tha...
THE THINGS TO COME (Mark 13:1-37) Mark 13:1-37 is one of the most difficult Chapter s in the New Testament for a modern reader to understand. That is because it is one of the most Jewish Chapter s in...
Jesus said, "Learn the lesson the fig-tree offers you. As soon as its branches become tender, and it puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. So must you too know, when you see these thing...
A MAN. Greek. _anthropos._ App-123. TAKING. FAR JOURNEY. See note on Matthew 21:33. WHO LEFT. leaving. SERVANTS. bond-servants. AND COMMANDED THE PORTER. commanded the porter withal. TO WATCH. to...
_For the Son of man is_ These words do not occur in the original. _taking a far journey_ Literally, one WHO IS ABSENT FROM HIS PEOPLE, WHO GOES ON FOREIGN TRAVEL. "Which gon fer in pilgrimage," Wyclif...
ὩΣ ἌΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ. Again a characteristic asyndeton (Mt. inserts γάρ), and a characteristically unskilful constr. There is no apodosis to ὡς (Blass § 78. 1), and forgetting that he has used no finite verb M...
33–37. THE NECESSITY FOR WATCHFULNESS Matthew 25:13-15; Luke 21:36...
Ver 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. 33. Take ye heed, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is. 34....
_ BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR MARK 13:32-37:_ There is an obvious change that takes place here. "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but...
ΑΠΌΔΗΜΟΣ (G590) находящийся далеко от дома, в путешествии, ΆΦΕΊΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) покидать: "он ушел" ΔΟΎΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать: "он д...
DISCOURSE: 1454 THE DUTY OF WATCHFULNESS ENFORCED 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. Take ye heed, watch...
_SUMMARY 13:1-37_ In this section Mark sets forth his Master as a prophet. At the time that his narrative was composed, some of the predictions recorded in the section had already been fulfilled, but...
12. THE COMMAND TO WATCH 13:24-37 _TEXT 13:24-37_ But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall be falling from heav...
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. [FOR THE SON OF MAN IS] AS...
23 See 2Pe_3:17. 24-27 Compare Mat_24:29-31; Luk_21:25-27; Rev_6:12-17. Sixth Seal. 26 See Dan_7:13-14; 2Th_1:7-10; Rev_1:7. 28-32 Compare Mat_24:32-36; Luk_21:29-31. 28 The fig tree is political I...
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND OF THE END OF THE WORLD 1-37. Christ's great prophecy (Matthew 24:1; Luke 21:5). See on Mt....
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 13 JESUS DESCRIBES FUTURE TROUBLES VERSES 1-2 The temple (*God’s Great House) was...
(32-37) BUT OF THAT DAY AND THAT HOUR. — See Notes on Matthew 24:36. NEITHER THE SON. — The addition to St. Matthew’s report is every way remarkable. It indicates the self-imposed limitation of the di...
FOR THE SON OF MAN IS AS A MAN TAKING A FAR JOURNEY. — The italics indicate, as usual, that the words are not found in the Greek. Their absence, seeming, as they do, essential to the meaning of the se...
Enforcement of the exhortation to watch by a brief parable. At this point each of the synoptical evangelists goes his own way. In Mt. Jesus presses home the lesson by historical and prophetical pictur...
_Concluding exhortation_ (Matthew 24:36)....
“WATCH!” Mark 13:14-37 _The fall of Jerusalem,_ Mark 13:14-23. This abomination had been predicted by Daniel, Daniel 9:27, Josephus says that the Romans brought their standards into the Temple, and...
A casual remark from the lips of one of the disciples drew from Jesus words full of solemnity and full of hope. This stately building was to be destroyed. 1t- was already destroyed in the eyes of Chri...
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
(33) Take ye heed, watch and pray for ye know not when the time is. (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...
The transfiguration, as a matter of fact witnessed by the eyes of chosen witnesses, introduces naturally the great change that was about to be effected by the mighty power of God; for that wondrous sc...
_WORK AND ITS PRIVILEGES_ ‘To every man his work.’ Mark 13:34 Work is the heritage, the duty, the responsibility of all faithful servants of the Lord Jesus. Life is not a mere holiday with them. I...
_THE ABSENTEE HOUSEHOLDER_ ‘It is as when a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch.’...
In chapter 13 the Lord takes up much more the service of the apostles in the circumstances that would surround them, than the development of the dispensations and the ways of God with respect to the k...
[FOR THE SON OF MAN IS] AS A MAN TAKING A FAR JOURNEY,.... Or this case of the son of man's coming to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, is like a man that takes a journey into a far country. This p...
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 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. 33 Tak...
_Take ye heed_ Of every thing that would unfit you for your Master's coming, that might lull you into a fatal security, and render you negligent and slothful: _watch and pray_ Let your minds be always...
The time of the last day:...
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....
TITLE: Jesus is coming TEXT: Mark 13:32-37 PROPOSITION: We must avoid speculation about the second coming. QUESTION: What? KEY WORD: Events READING: Same INTRODUCTION: 1. Jesus is coming again. John...
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 d...
Ver. 34-37. In the Greek, those words, FOR THE SON OF MAN IS, are not, but those, or some such like, are necessarily to be understood to make up the sense. The watching here again twice called for is...
Mark 13:34 like G5613 man G444 country G590 left G863 (G5631) his G846 house G3614 and G2532 gave...
“Take heed, watch and pray. For you do not know when the time is. It is as when a man, temporarily living in another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, to each one his...
THE DISCIPLES ARE TO WATCH FOR HIS COMING (13:28-37). Jesus now stressed the inevitability of ‘these things' that He has described as needing to happen before His return, and that they must thus obse...
THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD IN THE MIDST OF THE BATTERING OF HISTORY: PRELIMINARY TROUBLES - THE GOOD NEWS PROCLAIMED AMONG ALL NATIONS - THE COMING DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM - THE COMING...
THIS discourse is recorded by three Evangelists (Matthew, Mark, and Luke). All the accounts correspond remarkably; that of Matthew is the fullest. See on Matthew 24. Mark introduces a few thoughts not...
Mark 13:33-37. Here the three accounts, though preserving the same general tone, differ in details. Matthew (Matthew 24:37-41) refers to the days of Noah, as illustrating the suddenness of the Lord's...
Mark 13:34. IT IS AS WHEN A MAN. The whole matter of watchfulness is as in the following parable. AWAY FROM HIS COUNTRY, sojourning in a foreign land. HAVING LEFT HIS HOUSE AND GIVEN AUTHORITY (i.e...
COMMANDED ALSO THE PORTER TO WATCH (κα τω θυρωρω ενετειλατο ινα γρηγορη). The porter or door-keeper (θυρωρος), as well as all the rest, to keep a watch (present subjunctive, γρηγορη). This Parable...
Mark 13:34 Consider: I. The work of the servants. And here we observe: (1) That work is the common duty of all in Christ's house. (2) This work of Christ's house is varied to different individuals....
CONTENTS: The course of the present age its culmination in the great tribulation and the Second coming of Christ. Parable of the fig tree. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Daniel, Peter, James, J...
Mark 13:2. _There shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down._ When the Chaldeans burned the temple, that part called Solomon's porch escaped demolition; this favour howev...
_And to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch._ CHRISTIAN WATCHFULNESS I. A certain event referred to. That He should go away was necessary. 1. It was impossible that His state of h...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 13:4 WHEN WILL THESE THINGS BE, AND WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN? Jesus’ answer deals primarily with the second part of the question, but he also addresses the timing of the coming events....
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 13:33 This parable about A MAN GOING ON A JOURNEY is similar to the parable of the wicked tenants (Mark 12:1). The sudden return of the...
Jesus tells about his return Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36; Luke 12:39-46;...
CHAPTER 13 1 _Christ foretelleth the destruction of the temple_. 9 _the persecutions for the gospel_ : 10 _that the gospel must be preached to all nations_ : 14 _that great calamities shall happen to...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 13:35. WATCH YE.—_Be ye wakeful_.—A military image. Don’t be caught napping at your post. Same word in Mark 13:37. AT EVEN, ETC.—The Roman divisions of the night....
EXPOSITION MARK 13:1 AND AS HE WENT FORTH OUT OF THE TEMPLE, ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES SAITH UNTO HIM MASTER, BEHOLD, WHAT MANNER, OF STONES AND WHAT MANNER OF BUILDINGS! This would be in the evening. Ac...
Mark's gospel chapter 13. And as he [Jesus] went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! (Mark 13:1) Referring to the gr...
1 Corinthians 12:4; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Corinthians 3:5; Acts 20:29;...
The Son of man is as a man taking a far journey — Being about to leave this world and go to the Father, he appoints the services that are to be performed by all his servants, in their several stations...