English
Jesus said, ‘The man who knows where the brigands are going to enter is favored, so that he may arise and gather his kingdom and strap his loins before they enter.’
Interpretation
Compare Saying 21.
Parallels
1 Thessalonians
5.2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
Didache
16.1 Do not let your lamps go out, and do not keep your loins ungirded, but be ready, for you do not know the hour when our Lord is coming.
Matthew
24.43–44 ‘But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the son of man is coming at an unexpected hour.’
Luke
12.39–40 ‘But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, for the son of man is coming at an unexpected hour.’
Revelation of John
3.3 ‘Remember then what you received and heard. Obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.’
16.5 ‘See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and is clothed, not going about naked and exposed to shame.’
2 Peter
3.10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.