When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris. Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.įor there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.īut if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. See verse in context The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.Īnd this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?īut know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.įor they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

Sell that ye have, and give alms provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.Īnd Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.īut the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.īut let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.īut ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.īehold, I come as a thief.

Like a thief in the night