36 Therefore be watchful all the time, asking that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.
But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints: on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Gospel,
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most assuredly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
"But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap;
But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
Worthy.Bible » Commentaries » Matthew Henry Commentary » Commentary on Luke 21
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,