Mark 13:27 And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.

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New International Version
And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.

English Standard Version
And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

New American Standard Bible
"And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.

King James Bible
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He will send out the angels and gather His elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of the sky.

International Standard Version
He'll send out his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven."

American Standard Version
And then shall he send forth the angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

Darby Bible Translation
and then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from end of earth to end of heaven.

Young's Literal Translation
and then he shall send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth unto the end of heaven.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:4
If any of your be driven out to the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you, and from there will he fetch you:

Zechariah 2:6
Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, said the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, said the LORD.

Mark 13:28
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near:

2 Thessalonians 2:1
Now we beseech you, brothers, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together to him,

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:24-27 The disciples had confounded the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world. This mistake Christ set right, and showed that the day of Christ's coming, and the day of judgment, shall be after that tribulation. Here he foretells the final dissolution of the present frame and fabric of the world. Also, the visible appearance of the Lord Jesus coming in the clouds, and the gathering together of all the elect to him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

27. And then shall he send his angels—"with a great sound of a trumpet" (Mt 24:31).

and shall gather together his elect, &c.—As the tribes of Israel were anciently gathered together by sound of trumpet (Ex 19:13, 16, 19; Le 23:24; Ps 81:3-5), so any mighty gathering of God's people, by divine command, is represented as collected by sound of trumpet (Isa 27:13; compare Re 11:15); and the ministry of angels, employed in all the great operations of Providence, is here held forth as the agency by which the present assembling of the elect is to be accomplished. Lightfoot thus explains it: "When Jerusalem shall be reduced to ashes, and that wicked nation cut off and rejected, then shall the Son of man send His ministers with the trumpet of the Gospel, and they shall gather His elect of the several nations, from the four corners of heaven: so that God shall not want a Church, although that ancient people of His be rejected and cast off: but that ancient Jewish Church being destroyed, a new Church shall be called out of the Gentiles." But though something like this appears to be the primary sense of the verse, in relation to the destruction of Jerusalem, no one can fail to see that the language swells beyond any gathering of a human family into a Church upon earth, and forces the thoughts onward to that gathering of the Church "at the last trump," to meet the Lord in the air, which is to wind up the present scene. Still, this is not, in our judgment, the direct subject of the prediction; for Mr 13:28 limits the whole prediction to the generation then existing.