36 But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.
Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;
And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.
Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy,
But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place. Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;
A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.
But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.
Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise;
With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints, And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,
Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food. And if he comes in the second division of the night or in the third, and they are watching for him, happy are those servants. But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into. So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.
But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;
Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain; For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,
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Commentary on Luke 21 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 21
In this chapter we have,
Luk 21:1-4
This short passage of story we had before in Mark. It is thus recorded twice, to teach us,
Luk 21:5-19
See here,
Luk 21:20-28
Having given them an idea of the times for about thirty-eight years next ensuing, he here comes to show them what all those things would issue in at last, namely, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the utter dispersion of the Jewish nation, which would be a little day of judgment, a type and figure of Christ's second coming, which was not so fully spoken of here as in the parallel place (Mt. 24), yet glanced at; for the destruction of Jerusalem would be as it were the destruction of the world to those whose hearts were bound up in it.
Luk 21:29-38
Here, in the close of this discourse,