Be Alert

34 “But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly 35 like a trap. For it will come upon all who reside on the face of the whole earth. 36 But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

37 So throughout the days he was teaching in the temple courts,[a] and throughout the nights he was going out and[b] spending the night on the hill that is called the Mount of Olives. 38 And all the people were getting up very early in the morning to come[c] to him in the temple courts[d] to listen to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 21:37 *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
  2. Luke 21:37 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“was going out”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Luke 21:38 The words “to come” are not in the Greek text but are implied
  4. Luke 21:38 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself