Quotes & Notes on:    Matthew 24:44 John Wesley's Notes: (No comment on this verse)   Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: (No comment on this verse)   Adam Clarke's Commentary:  (No comment on this verse)   Family Bible Notes: Ready; for the coming of your Lord, in whatever way.   1599 Geneva Bible Notes: (No comment on this verse)   People's New Testament Commentary:  The duty enjoined is not to watch for Christ, but to watch ourselves to see that we are ready.   Robertson's Word Pictures:    That ye think not (hêi ou dokeite hôrâi). It is useless to set the day and hour for Christ's coming. It is folly to neglect it. This figure of the thief will be used also by Paul concerning the unexpectedness of Christ's second coming (1Th 5:2). See also Mt 24:50 for the unexpectedness of the coming with punishment for the evil servant.   Albert Barnes' Commentary:   Be ye also ready. Lu 21:36 says, that he charged them to pray always, that they might be accounted worthy to escape those things--the judgments coming upon the wicked--and to stand before the Son of man--i. e. to stand there approved by him, or admitted to his favour. He also charged them Lu 21:34 to take heed, and not to suffer their hearts to be overcharged with surfeiting, or too much eating, or drunkenness, or the cares of this life, lest that day should come upon them unawares; things improper if there were no judgment-- peculiarly mad and wicked when the judgment is near.   Jamieson-Faussett Brown:  (No comment on this verse)   Spurgeon Commentary: Mr. Wesley was once asked by a lady, "Suppose that you knew that you were to die at twelve o'clock tomorrow night, how would you spend the intervening time?" "How, madam?" he replied, "why just as I intend to spend it now. I should preach this night at Gloucester, and again at five tomorrow morning. After that I should ride to Tewkesbury, preach in the afternoon,, and meet the societies in the evening. I should then repair to friend Martin's house, who expects to entertain me, converse and pray with the family as usual, retire to my room at ten o'clock, commend myself to my heavenly Father, lie down to rest, and wake up in glory." To be prepared for the coming of Jesus we need not leave our daily callings, and stand gazing upward into heaven; but with grace in our hearts we shall do well to continue in the path of service with steadfast souls.   William Burkitt's Notes: (No comment on this verse)   Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary: (No comment on this verse)   The Fourfold Gospel: (No comment on this verse)

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