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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們都知道，家主若曉得竊賊甚麼時候來，就不會讓他摸進屋裡。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
家 主 若 知 道 贼 甚 麽 时 候 来 ， 就 必 儆 醒 ， 不 容 贼 挖 透 房 屋 ， 这 是 你 们 所 知 道 的 。

Contextual Overview

²² Jesus said to his followers, "So I tell you, don't worry about the food you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. ²³ Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes. ²⁴ Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest, they don't have storerooms or barns, but God feeds them. And you are worth much more than birds. ²⁵ You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it. ²⁶ If you cannot do even the little things, then why worry about the big things? ²⁷ Consider how the lilies grow; they don't work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. ²⁸ God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So how much more will God clothe you? Don't have so little faith! ²⁹ Don't always think about what you will eat or what you will drink, and don't keep worrying. ³⁰ All the people in the world are trying to get these things, and your Father knows you need them. ³¹ But seek God's kingdom, and all your other needs will be met as well.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 24:43, Matthew 24:44, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 2 Peter 3:10, Revelation 3:3, Revelation 16:15

Reciprocal: Job 24:14 - in the night Psalms 91:5 - terror Proverbs 7:19 - the goodman Ecclesiastes 9:12 - the sons 1 Thessalonians 5:6 - watch

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this know,.... The Ethiopic version reads, "this only know"; only take notice of this one thing, and it may be of some use to direct you in your conduct how to behave during the absence of your Lord, until the time he shall come again:

that if the good man of the house had known what hour the thief would come; that is, if the owner, or master of the house, whose the goods in the house are, could by any means know what time of the night the thief would come to break into his house, in order to plunder it, and carry off his goods:

he would have watched; either he himself in person, or he would have set a watch about his house, or in it:

and not have suffered his house to be broken through; either the door to be broken up, or the wall to be dug through, but by a guard about it, or within it, would have prevented such a design. And so in like manner, could it be known in what time Christ would come, either to the destruction of Jerusalem, or at death, or to judgment, every thoughtful, prudent man that should know it, would be upon his guard, that he might not be surprised with it; and though the precise time could not be known, yet inasmuch as the thing itself is certain, it became all the servants of Christ to be watching for it;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 24:42-51.

Second watch - See the notes at Matthew 14:25.