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Selected Verse: Luke 12:38 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 12:38 |
King James |
And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| second . . . third watch--To find them ready to receive Him at any hour of day or night, when one might least of all expect Him, is peculiarly blessed. A servant may be truly faithful, even though taken so far unawares that he has not everything in such order and readiness for his master's return as he thinks is due to him, and both could and would have had if he had had notice of the time of his coming, and so may not be willing to open to him "immediately," but fly to preparation, and let his master knock again ere he admit him, and even then not with full joy. A too common case this with Christians. But if the servant have himself and all under his charge in such a state that at any hour when his master knocks, he can open to him "immediately," and hail his "return"--that is the most enviable, "blessed" servant of all. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
See the notes at Mat 24:42-51.
Second watch - See the notes at Mat 14:25. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Second watch
See on Mar 13:35. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The Jews frequently divided the night into three watches, to which our Lord seems here to allude. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| If he shall come in the second watch - See the note on Mat 14:25. |
25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman 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.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.