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Selected Verse: Mark 13:29 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Mr 13:29 |
King James |
So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
So ye, in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass--rather, "coming to pass."
know that it--"the kingdom of God" (Luk 21:31).
is nigh, even at the doors--that is, the full manifestation of it; for till then it admitted of no full development. In Luke (Luk 21:28) the following words precede these: "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh"--their redemption, in the first instance certainly, from Jewish oppression (Th1 2:14-16; Luk 11:52): but in the highest sense of these words, redemption from all the oppressions and miseries of the present state at the second appearing of the Lord Jesus. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Come to pass (γινόμενα)
The present participle, and therefore better as Rev., coming to pass; in process of fulfilment. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| He is nigh - The Son of man. |
52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.