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Mark 13:33 — King James Version← Study notes

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.


Mark 13:33Greek Interlinear

Greek · Mark 13:339 words
GreekMeaning
βλέπετεblepete
do take heedverbG991
ἀγρυπνεῖτεagrypneite
do watchverbG69
οὐκouk
notadverbG3756
οἴδατεoidate
andverbG2532
γὰρgar
forwordG1063
πότεpote
afore-(any, some-)time(-s), at length (the…adverbG4218
ho
thearticleG3588
καιρόςkairos
timenounG2540
ἐστινestin
isverbG1510
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Mark 13:33

The Lord wishing to prevent His disciples from asking about that day and hour, says, 'But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.'

Theophylact · 11th century

This ignorance of the day and hour is urged against the Only-Begotten God, as if, God born of God had not the same perfection of nature as God. But first, let common sense decide whether it is credible that He, who is the cause that all things are, and are to be, should be ignorant of any out of all these things. For how can it be beyond the knowledge of that nature, by which and in which that which is to be done is contained? And can He be ignorant of that day, which is the…

Hilary of Poitiers · 4th century · de Trin., ix

For we must needs watch with our souls before the death of the body.

Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century
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