Mark 13:24-37
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- Reading the Text:
- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
- Greek Interlinear Bible, ScrTR, ScrTR t, Strong, Parsing, CGTS, CGES id, AV.
- The Bible Gateway: NRSV, RSV, NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
- The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
- The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary & sermons.
- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- The Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto.
- Comparative texts about New Covenant Eschatology and Apocalyptic Speculation from Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Targum, proto-Kabbala, Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud, and Midrash. At Rutgers University, Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus.
- "The Unknown Time," "Within This Generation," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C. Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation.
- Similitude IX.7, Shepherd of Hermas. (c.145)
- XLII.21, 32-37; Tatian's Diatessaron (c. 150-160).
- II.XXVIII.6, V.X.1, Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180)
- V.XXII, Against Celsus, Origen (c. 246)
- Latin text of Augustine's Sermon 97 (Mk 13:32).
- English text of Sermon 97, Augustine.
- From the
Geneva Notes.
- "The latter day is not to be searched for curiously, which day the Father alone knows: but let us rather take heed that it does not come upon us unaware."
- From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary.
- "As to the destruction of Jerusalem, expect it to come very shortly. As to the end of the world, do not inquire when it will come, for of that day and that hour knoweth no man."
- From
Wesley's Notes.
- "Being about to leave this world and go to the Father, he appoints the services that are to be performed by all his servants, in their several stations. This seems chiefly to respect ministers at the day of judgment: but it may be applied to all men, and to the time of death. Mt 25:14; Lu 19:12."
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- "This very remarkable statement regarding "the Son" is peculiar to Mark. Whether it means that the Son was not at that time in possession of the knowledge referred to, or simply that it was not among the things which He had received to communicate--has been matter of much controversy even among the firmest believers in the proper Divinity of Christ. In the latter sense it was taken by some of the most eminent of the ancient Fathers, and by LUTHER, MELANCTHON, and most of the older Lutherans; and it is so taken by BENGEL, LANGE, WEBSTER and WILKINSON, CHRYSOSTOM and others understood it to mean that as man our Lord was ignorant of this. It is taken literally by CALVIN, GROTIUS, DE WETTE, MEYER, FRITZSCHE, STIER, ALFORD, and ALEXANDER."
- From
The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- "Observe in this chapter the emphasis given to Christ's exhortation, "Watch!" Matthew tells us how the Lord sought to impress these lessons of watchfulness and faithfulness still more deeply by the parables of the "Ten Virgins" (Matt. 25:1-13), and the "Talents" (Matt. 25:14-30), and closed all with a picture of the awful day when the Son of man should separate all nations from one another, as the shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats (Matt. 25:31-46)."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
- Commentary, Mark 13:24-37, David Schnasa Jacobson, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2017.
- Living by the Word, Dennis Sanders, The Christian Century, 2017.
- Pulpit Fiction, plus podcast. Reflections of lectionary text, pop culture, current events, etc. Robb Mc Coy and Eric Fistler, 2017.
- "Keep Awake: SALT's Lectionary Commentary for Advent Week 1", 2017.
- "Advent Time," Karoline Lewis, Dear Working Preacher, 2017.
- "A Present-Tense Advent," David Lose, ...in the Meantime, 2017.
- Wild Lectionart: Learn from the Fig Tree, Jessica Miller, Radical Dischipleship, 2017.
- "Seeking to bleat like a sheep," Andrew Prior, 2017.
- "Wake, Wide Awake, and Woke," Sharon R. Blezard, Stewardship of Life, 2017.
- Provoking the Gospel, Richard Swanson, 2017.
- "The Politics of Sleep," Amy Allen, Political Theology Today, 2017.
- A Plain Account, Wesleyan Commentary, 2017.
- "Raking in the Dark," Janet H. Hunt, Dancing with the Word, 2017.
- "Good News of the End," Glenn Monson, Law & Gospel Everywhere, 2017.
- "No Longer At Ease in the Old Dispensation," Nancy Rockwell, The Bite in the Apple, 2017.
- Commentary,
Mark 13:24-37, Mark Allan Powell, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org,
2011.
- "The season of Advent invites us to wait impatiently for the consummation of hope, longing to know God as fully as we have been known; to see no longer through a dark pane, but face to face; to love as we have been loved; to experience Jesus Christ as he is, and in so doing, to become like him (1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 John 3:2)."
- "Preaching a Participatory Advent," David Lose, ...in the meantime, 2014.
- "And so perhaps our task this week is to invite people to look for Jesus in the need of those around them and to be awake to God’s presence in response to their own need."
- Proclaiming Mark, studies for the Sundays in Advent B, Anglican Church Diocese of Perth, 2014. (.pdf download at link.)
- "Images of Hope, Suffering and Vigilance," D Mark Davis, Left Behind and Loving It, 2014.
- "The angels are 'gathering the elect,' using the same verb as the hen, who 'gathers' her brood for protection."
- Pulpit Fiction, plus podcast. Reflections of lectionary text, pop culture, current events, etc. Robb Mc Coy and Eric Fistler, 2014.
- "Watching and Waiting," Janet H. Hunt, Dancing with the Word, 2014.
- "In your life, what does it mean to watch and wait? When have you found this to be just annoying? When have you been able to find the gift in it?"
- "Christmas, Apocalypse, Rebels and Bell Choirs," Russell Rathbun, Question the Text, 2014.
- "This Sunday we mark the beginning of the celebration of the Advent of the immaterial made material, God becoming flesh and the numbers floating in our bank’s computers becoming packages all tied up in bows."
- "New Life There," Andrew King, A Poetic Kind of Place, 2014.
- "Watch Actively!" Thomas Beam, 2014.
- "Awake, Awake, the Son of Man Is Coming," Bob Cornwall, Ponderings on a Faith Journey, 2014.
- "Don’t get complacent. Don’t get too comfortable with your surroundings. Instead, keep ready by being engaged in the word of God in the World."
- "The Unexpected Time," Nancy Rockwell, The Bite in the Apple, 2014.
- Evangelio Comentario del San Marcos 13:24-37 por Luis N. Rivera-Pagán, Working Preacher, 2014.
- Concise Exegesis, Richard Donovan, lectionary.org.
- "Advent Door 2: New Creation," Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia.
- Commentary,
Mark 13:24-37, Karoline Lewis, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org,
2011.
- "The Gospel text for the first Sunday in Advent is certainly not anticipated and most likely not welcome."
- "Advent: One of Those Dangerous Religious Ideas," Matthew L. Skinner, ON Scripture, 2011.
- "False signs remain everywhere; they are events and trends we rely upon to inform our ultimate hopes or fears."
- "If the World Were to End," David Lose, Dear Working Preacher, 2011.
- "So remember how you answered that question about what you would do if the world were to end tomorrow? Well, guess what? You don't need to wait. You can do those things now!"
- "A Difficult Day of the Lord," Andrew Prior, First Impressions, 2011.
- "Keeping Awake to Wait," David Henson, Patheos, 2011.
- Signs of the Coming Son of Man, audio telling, story in episodes, graphic, audio and written commentaries. Go Tell Communications, Biblical Storytelling for the Global Village, 2011.
- "Falling Stars, Failed States, and the Power of Advent," Amy Allen, Political Theology, 2011.
- "The question for us today is—in a world of woes and suffering, when the powers and principalities have not yet been (completely) dethroned—how are we to stay alert?"
- "Who put the 'i' in Surprise?" Peter Woods, I Am Listening, 2011.
- "So excuse me if I don't get all fear fired up with Apocalyptic fervour, I happen to have seen the Son of Man coming in the clouds when I watched the sunrise this morning."
- "Emergency Alert System," Alyce M. McKenzie, Edgy Exegesis, Patheos, 2011.
- Watching For The Coming Of The Lord -- Exegesis for Advent 1 on Mark 13:32-37 by Richard Gribble from SermonStudio.
- "Christmas, Apocalyipse, Rebels and Bell Choirs," Russell Rathbun, The Hardest Question, 2011.
- "The fullness of the final Advent is not yet, but the religion of creation still beckons us to come out of the religion of empire. But how?"
- Holy
Textures, Understanding the Bible in its own time and in ours, Mark 13:24-37, David Ewart, 2011.
- "The lesson for Advent is still: Stay awake. Be alert. Live in expectation. Live now as you will when the Son of Man does return."
- Performance Commentary of Mark 13:24-37, Advent 1, Lynn White of the Network of Biblical Storytellers, You Tube.
- "Star Gazing," Fr. Rick Morley, a garden path, 2011.
- "#OccupyAdvent: 'Let the Reader Understand'," Carl Gregg, Patheos, 2011.
- Comentario del Evangelio por J. Manny Santiago, San Marcos 13:24-37, Working Preacher, 2011.
- Commentary, Mark 13:24-37, Paul S. Berge, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2008.
- Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
- A Brief Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 13, Carl W. Conrad. (Click superscript numbers for commentary.)
- "Jesus Predicts the Fall of Temple and the Coming Tribulation," "Parable of the Watcher," Michael A. Turton's Historical Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, "a complete verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel of Mark, focusing on the historicity of people, places, events, and sayings in the world of the Gospel of Mark."
-
Dylan's Lectionary Blog,
Advent 1B. Biblical Scholar
Sarah Dylan Breuer looks at readings for the coming Sunday in the lectionary
of the Episcopal Church.
- "The truly frightening stuff described in Mark 13 is, for Mark's readers, not a prediction to frighten future generations, but words of comfort for a generation that used this vivid language, the language of nightmares mixed with literal retellings of the kinds of betrayal and threats facing community members, to describe what they'd already seen brothers and sisters in Christ going through."
-
"First
Thoughts on Passages from Mark in the Lectionary: Advent 1," William
Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
- "Watchful living has less to do with speculation about the end of the world ? and we shall have plenty of that as the millennium ends! ? and more to do with carrying out our trust, as Mark illustrates it, in a way that finally makes the date of the end a matter of irrelevance. Readiness has as much to do with being ready for life as it has to do with its end."
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Exegetical Notes
by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks Christian Resources.
- "More specifically, Ched Myers (Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus) agrees with most commentators that Mark was written during the Jewish revolt against Rome, but, in addition, that Mark is encouraging his community not to participate in the rebel's revolt."
- "Watch!" Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
- "Islam in Apocalyptic Perspective," study guide, Robert B. Kruschwitz, (other resources at) "Apocalyptic Vision" Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2010. (Mark 14:28-37)
-
"Hope in the Shadows,"
David Busic and Jeren Rowell, Preacher's Magazine: Listening to the
Text, Engaging the Text, Preaching the Text.
- "The goal is, through the careful use of reflective questions, to lead our hearers to a nod of understanding, and hopefully even agreement, about the message of hope Jesus proclaims in Mark?s 13th chapter. Then what may have been a dead text to be avoided in the minds of both preacher and listener may live again with the power and significance Mark intended."
-
"Eschatological Discourse,"
Gospel Analysis, Sermons from
Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. Detailed background and exegesis.
- "Rather than spending time and energy trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together about the End, we are to be alert, ready, on edge, always prepared for Christ to come unexpectedly like a thief in the night. That is the focus of Jesus? teachings about the End."
- Sermon Preparation Thoughts and Questions by Wesley White, 2005.
-
Marginally Mark, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western
Australia.
- "Lest God's cause suffer by our imagery, maybe it's time to change emphasis. Do I ever see a King in daily life? No, but I know there's a Rule going on, or wanting to, in here in my heart & out there in our margins!"
-
"When, Lord? When?"
Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A
Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel. Adult Study, Children's
Story, Family Activity, Support Materials.
- "What anxieties do people have about the so-called 'end times?'"
- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.Annotated list of "starting place" articles at ATLAS for this week's texts (includes direct links).
- Adams, Edward,
"The Coming Son of Man in Mark's Gospel," Tyndale Bulletin, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Anderson, Mary W.,
"Time's Up," The Christian Century, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Batstone, David
B., "Jesus, Apocalyptic, and World Transformation," Theology Today,
1993.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Beasley-Murray,
G.R.,
"The Eschatological Discourse of Jesus," Review and Expositor,
1960.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Carey, Greg,
"Apocalyptic Discourse as Constructive Theology," Perspectives in Religious Studies,
2013.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Deppe, Dean B.,
"Charting the Future or Perspective on the Present?" Calvin
Theological Journal, 2006.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Elliott, J.K.,
"The Position of the Verb in Mark with Special Reference to Chapter 13,"
Novum Testamentum, 1996.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Galbreath, Paul, "Mark 13:24-37, Between Text &
Sermon," Interpretation, 2008.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Goetz, Ronald, "In
Praise of Ignorance," The Christian Century, 1982.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - González, Catherine Gunsalus,
"Advent and Eschatology," Journal for Preachers, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Heil, John Paul, "The Narrative
Strategy and Pragmatics of the Temple Theme in Mark," The Catholic
Biblical Quarterly, 1997. (Section on this text begins on p 89.)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - "Homiletical Helps," Concordia Journal, 2009. (Section on this text begins on page 400)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Johnson, Stephen C., "The 'Future' of Preaching:
Apocalyptic Eschatology and Christian Proclamation," Restoration
Quarterly, 2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Long, Thomas G.,
"Imagine There's No Heaven: The Loss of Eschatology in American
Preaching," Journal for Preachers, 2006.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Lovette, Roger,
"On Not Missing the Circus," The Living Pulpit, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Madigan, Kevin, "Christus
Nesciens? Was Christ Ignorant of the Day of Judgment? Arian and Orthodox
Interpretation of Mark 13:32 in the Ancient Latin West," Harvard
Theological Review, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Martin, Troy W.,
"Watch during the Watches (Mark 13:35)," Journal of Biblical
Literature, 2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - McMickle, Marvin
A.,
"Reflections on Advent," The Living Pulpit, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - McNicol, Allan J.,
"The Lesson of the Fig Tree in Mark 13:28-32: A Comparison between Two
Exegetical Methodologies," Restoration Quarterly, 1984.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Meyers, Robin R.,
"In Praise of the First Coming," The Christian Century, 2000.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Neville, David J.,
"Moral Vision and Eschatology in Mark's Gospel: Coherence or Conflict?"
Journal of Biblical Literature, 2008.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Norris, Kathleen,
"Apocalypse Now," The Christian Century, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Pippin, Tina,
"A Good Apocalypse is Hard to Find: Crossing the Apocalyptic Borders of
Mark 13," Semeia, 1995.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Schlimm, Matthew R.,
Living by the Word Lectionary Reflections, The Christian Century, 2014.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Slater, Thomas B., "Apocalypticism and eschatology: a study of Mark 13:3-37," The Christian Century, 2013.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Stendahl, John, "Advent Alchemy,"
The Christian Century, 2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Towner, W. Sibley,
"An Exposition of Mark 13:24-32," Interpretation, 1976.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Trotti, John
Boone,
"Mark 13:32-37," Interpretation, 1978.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Adams, Edward,
"The Coming Son of Man in Mark's Gospel," Tyndale Bulletin, 2005.
- Sermons:
- "Two Minute Warning," the Rev. Dr. Russell Levenson, Jr., Day 1, 2011.
- Watching And Waiting For The Kingdom -- Maurice A. Fetty, SermonStudio
- "Eschatological Itching," Advent 1 - 27 November 2005, David Zersen, Göttinger Predigten im Internet: Every Sunday Sermons based on the RCL by a team of Lutheran theologians/ pastors.
- "Hope in the Shadows," Darrik Acre, Preacher's Magazine, 2005.
- "This Time of Mortal Life," the Rev. Dr. Edward S. Gleason, Day 1, 2005.
- "Wake Up! Don't Fall Asleep!" "The End of the World," "Suddenly," Sermons from Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington.
- Father Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily
- With Children:
- Worshiping with Children, Advent 1B, Including children in the congregation's worship, using the Revised Common Lectionary, Carolyn C. Brown, 2014. 2011.
- "Storypath Lectionary Links: Connecting Children's Literature with our Faith Story," November 30, 2014, Union Presbyterian Seminary. Connections: Isaiah 64:1-9 and Taming Horrible Harry by Lili Chartrand, 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 and The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom by Bettye Stroud, Mark 13:24-37 and The Boy Who Held Back the Sea by Lenny Hort. 2011.
- "No One Knows the Day or the Hour of Jesus' Coming," "We Keep Our Treasures Safe in Heaven," Sunday School Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc.
- Mark 13 & 14 Crossword, Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles.
- Drama:
- "A New Heaven and Earth," from A Certain Jesus by Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications.
- Graphics, Multimedia & Bulletin Materials:
- Clip Art Images: Mark 13:24-32, Mark 13:33-37, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú.
- Mark 13:24-32, Mark 13:33-37, Liturgical Drawing, Maria d.c. Zamora, Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use these for free.")
- Mark 13:33-37, at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration. Liberation emphasis.
- Images for this week's readings, Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive.
- "Stay Awake," free sample video for Advent 1B based on Mark 13, The Work of the People.
- Liturgy and Worship:
- "A Voice Cries Out...: Creative Approaches to Selected Scripture Readings for Advent," Douglas Macomber, Reformed Worship.
- Hymns and Music:
- “There is a Mighty Question,” an original hymn by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette on Jesus’ teachings about the end times and was selected to be in the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship’s Singing the New Testament. Tune: ANGEL'S STORY 7.6.7.6 D (“O Jesus, I Have Promised”).
- “God, You Alone Know What You've Planned,” an original hymn by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. This hymn was commissioned by The Presbyterian Outlook magazine for new Advent hymns to Christmas carol tunes. CAROL 8.6.8.6 D (“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear”).
- Hymnary.org, hymns, scores, media, information.
- Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
- Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Mark 13:26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. The Cyber Hymnal.
- At Digital Hymnal (midi files, guitar chords, karaoke files, projection text):
- Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
- Movies scenes with the following themes, listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
- Study Links and Resources for the Book of Mark
