Mark 13:36 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[Be alert], for he might come unexpectedly and find you asleep.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[Watch, I say] lest He come suddenly and unexpectedly and find you asleep.

American Standard Version (1901)

lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Common English Bible

Don’t let him show up when you weren’t expecting and find you sleeping.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Otherwise, when he will have arrived unexpectedly, he may find you sleeping.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.

Mark 13:36 Cross References

Matthew 25:5

Now when the [bride and] groom were late [in arriving], the bridesmaids all got drowsy and fell asleep.

Mark 14:37

And when He came back and found His disciples sleeping He said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not stay alert [in prayer] for one hour?

Mark 14:40

Then He came back again and found His disciples still asleep, because they had not been able to keep their eyes open at all.

Luke 21:34

“But pay attention to yourselves so that your hearts do not become overburdened by carousing, and drunkenness, and the worries of life. [If you do], that ‘day’ [i.e., Jesus’ second coming and judgment] will arrive suddenly, like a trap [i.e., which catches an animal by surprise].

Luke 22:45

And when He got up from praying He went to His disciples and found them asleep, exhausted from grief.

Ephesians 5:14

So, it says, “You who are asleep, wake up and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you [i.e., illuminate you].” [Note: The foregoing words may have been an early saying, used at someone’s immersion, which included the ideas of “rising up” (See Col. 2:12) and “illumination” (See Heb. 6:4) ].