Therefore, keep awake, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or early in the morning, lest coming suddenly, he finds you sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Keep awake.”
1 Or the outer courts of the temple
1 Greek What sort of stones and what sort of buildings?
2 Some ancient manuscripts omit here
6 Greek I am
9 Some ancient manuscripts omit the expression But you, watch out for yourselves
9 Or councils
12 Greek and father child
14 Some ancient manuscripts insert at this point the expression that was spoken by Daniel the Prophet
17 Greek But alas for those having in womb
19 Three ancient Greek manuscripts omit the expression which God created
23 Some ancient manuscripts insert the word see at this point, in order to harmonise the reading with a parallel in Matt. 24:25
25 Greek the heaven
27 Greek from end of earth to end of heaven
31 Greek the heaven and the earth
31 Two ancient Greek manuscripts read not
33 Some ancient manuscripts insert and pray at this point, in order to make the reading have some degree of parallelism with 14:38
34 The participle assigning is supplied to the text on a contextual basis for the purpose of clarification