In the same way, when you see all these things taking place, you can know that his return is very near, right at the door.
Parallel translations
- WEB even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.
- KJV So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
- BSB So also, when you see these things happening, know that He is near, right at the door.
- NKJV So you also, when you see these things happening, know that it is near—at the doors!
- NASB So you too, when you see these things happening, recognize that He is near, right at the door.
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Quick answer
Likewise, when they see these things, they will know it is near, right at the doors. The fulfillment is close and certain.
Overview
The signs Jesus described assure his followers that the predicted events stand at the very threshold. 'At the doors' conveys imminence and certainty. Applied first to Jerusalem's fall and ultimately to Christ's return, the call is to live in readiness, confident that what God has spoken will surely and soon come to pass in his appointed time.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Jas 5:9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
- 1 Pet 4:17–18For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
- Ezek 12:25–28For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
- Heb 10:25–37not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
- Ezek 7:10–12“‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.
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