MARK 13:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.”
Everyone will hate you because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved — the everyone will hate you is comprehensive: the persecution is universal in its source. Because of me: the hatred is not generic social hostility but specifically because of the disciples' identification with Jesus. The one who stands firm (ho de hypomeinas) to the end will be saved: endurance is the virtue required by the persecution period. The end is either the end of the individual's life or the end of the age — both meanings may be intended.
Church Fathers on Mark 13:13
The Lords shews how Jerusalem and the province of Judaea merited the infliction of such calamities, in the following words: 'But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten.'
Fitly also did He premise a recital of those things which concerned the Apostles, that in their own tribulations they might find some consolation in the community of troubles and sufferings.
Matthew adds, 'And then shall the end come.' [Matt 24:14]
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