Mat 24:43 | NASB1995 | STEP | “But be sure of this , that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming , he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

b Matt 24:42, 44; 25:10, 13; Luke 12:39f; 21:36

c Matt 14:25; Mark 6:48; 13:35; Luke 12:38

Matthew 24:43

43 “But ^{▼▼ Lit know this}be sure of this, that ^bif the head of the house had known ^cat what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be ^{▼▼ Lit dug through}broken into.