Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Matthew 24:42

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

KJV

γρηγορεῖτε οὖν, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε ποίᾳ ἡμέρᾳ ὁ κύριος ὑμῶν ἔρχεται.

Greek NT

Vigilate ergo, quia nescitis qua hora Dominus vester venturus sit.

Vulgate

Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

ASV

Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γρηγορεύω
gregoreuo
verb · 22×
εἴδω
eido
verb · 317×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
ποῖος
poios
interrogative_pronoun · 33×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἡμέρᾳ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἡμέρᾳ | RP: ὥρᾳ
  • ἡμέρᾳ — SBLGNT
  • ἡμέρᾳ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὥρᾳ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

The prophets were sent from one and the same Father from whom the Son was sent. 1. Which [God] the Lord does not reject, nor does He say that the prophets [spoke] from another god than His Father; nor from any other essence, but from one and the same Father; nor that any other being made the things in the world, except His own Father, when He speaks as follows in His teaching: …
2. And ye indeed say that you know even His substance, but that the Son not even the day, the Son, who is always in the bosom of the Father; and yet His substance is much greater than the days, even infinitely greater. How then, while assigning to yourselves the greater things, do you not allow even the less to the Son, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.…
Watch for your life's sake. Let not your lamps be quenched, nor your loins unloosed; but be ye ready, for ye know not the hour in which our Lord cometh. But be frequently gathered together, seeking the things which are befitting your souls: for the whole time of your faith will not profit you, if ye be not made complete in the last time.
45. But for them, when they thus blaspheme the Spirit, they must expect no remission ever of such irreligion, as the Lord has said ; but let us, who love Christ and bear Christ within us, know that the Word, not as ignorant, considered as Word, has said 'I know not,' for He knows, but as showing His manhood , in that to be ignorant is proper to man, and that He had put on flesh…
49. The Son then did know, as being the Word; for He implied this in what He said —'I know but it is not for you to know;' for it was for your sakes that sitting also on the mount I said according to the flesh, 'No, not the Son knows,' for the profit of you and all. For it is profitable to you to hear so much both of the Angels and of the Son, because of the deceivers which sha…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 16:13 — Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
  • 1Cor 16:13 — Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
  • 1Pet 4:7 — But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
  • 1Pet 4:7 — But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 1Thess 5:2 — For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
  • 1Thess 5:6 — Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
  • 1Thess 5:6 — Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
  • 2Pet 3:10 — But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that
  • Jude 1:21 — Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
  • Luke 12:35 — Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
  • Luke 12:37 — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
  • Luke 12:40 — Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
  • Luke 21:36 — Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
  • Luke 21:36 — Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
  • Mark 13:33 — Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
  • Mark 13:33 — Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
  • 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 cockcrowing, or in the morning:
  • Mark 14:38 — Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
  • Matt 16:28 — Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
  • Matt 24:36 — But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
  • Matt 24:36 — But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
  • Matt 24:44 — Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
  • Matt 24:44 — Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
  • Matt 24:50 — The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
  • Matt 25:1 — Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
  • Matt 25:13 — Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
  • Matt 25:13 — Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
  • Matt 26:38 — Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
  • Matt 26:41 — Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  • Rev 3:2 — Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
  • Rev 3:2 — Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
  • Rev 3:3 — Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon th
  • Rev 16:15 — Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
  • Rev 16:15 — Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
  • Rom 13:11 — And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
  • Rom 13:11 — And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.