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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們也要準備妥當，因為在想不到的時候，人子就來了。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 也 要 预 备 ； 因 为 你 们 想 不 到 的 时 候 ， 人 子 就 来 了 。

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

Luke 21:34-36, Matthew 24:42, Matthew 24:44, Matthew 25:13, Mark 13:33-36, Romans 13:11, Romans 13:14, 1 Thessalonians 5:6, 2 Peter 3:12-14, Revelation 19:7

Reciprocal: Luke 12:46 - lord 1 Thessalonians 5:2 - the day Revelation 3:3 - I will

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be ye therefore ready also,.... Not habitually, but actually, in the exercise of grace, and the discharge of duty, with loins girt, and lights burning. This may be understood either of a readiness to meet the Lord in the way of his judgments, and particularly the destruction of Jerusalem, which was to be in a few years; or of a preparation for death, and the last judgment, which lies in the righteousness of Christ imputed, and his grace imparted: and to have a comfortable view of the one, and a gracious experience of the other, as they will engage to the performance of good works, to which such are ready; so they make meet for the coming of Christ, be it in what way, and whensoever it will: and the rather, a concern should be had for such a preparation, because of the following reason,

for the son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not; in either of the above ways; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 24:42-51.

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

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 40. Be ye therefore ready also — It is pretty evident that what is related here, from verse Luke 12:35 to Luke 12:49, Luke 12:35-49 was spoken by our Lord at another time. See Matthew 24:42, &c., and the notes there.