Matthew 24:44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

English Standard Version
Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

New American Standard Bible
"For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

King James Bible
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is why you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

International Standard Version
So you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you are not expecting him."

American Standard Version
Therefore be ye also ready; for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come.

Darby Bible Translation
Wherefore ye also, be ye ready, for in that hour that ye think not the Son of man comes.

Young's Literal Translation
because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.

Cross References

Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even to the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 24:42
Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Lord does come.

Matthew 24:43
But know this, that if the manager of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Matthew 25:10
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

Matthew 25:13
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes.

Luke 12:39
And this know, that if the manager of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

Luke 21:36
Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

24:42-51 To watch for Christ's coming, is to maintain that temper of mind which we would be willing that our Lord should find us in. We know we have but a little time to live, we cannot know that we have a long time to live; much less do we know the time fixed for the judgment. Our Lord's coming will be happy to those that shall be found ready, but very dreadful to those that are not. If a man, professing to be the servant of Christ, be an unbeliever, covetous, ambitious, or a lover of pleasure, he will be cut off. Those who choose the world for their portion in this life, will have hell for their portion in the other life. May our Lord, when he cometh, pronounce us blessed, and present us to the Father, washed in his blood, purified by his Spirit, and fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 24

Mt 24:1-51. Christ's Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem, and Warnings Suggested by It to Prepare for His Second Coming. ( = Mr 13:1-37; Lu 21:5-36).

For the exposition, see on [1355]Mr 13:1-37.