What Does Mark 13:32 Mean?
But of that day and that hour no one knows, not even the messengers in the heavens, nor the Son, but the Father.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.THE KEY
The exact hour lies beyond every named knower, even the Son, and within the Father’s knowledge alone.
THE MEANING
The exact day and hour remain unknown to every human and to the angels in heaven; the verse includes even the Son in that limit and names the Father as the one who knows. The boundary reaches beyond human and angelic knowledge to the Son.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that spiritual rank or heavenly access makes the date knowable: the verse explicitly includes angels and the Son among those who do not know.
THE ROOT
οἶδεν
oiden
GROWS FROM
εἴδω
eidō
To see or perceive, and by extension, to know.
“knows” in this verse is oiden. The Greek verb behind “knoweth” belongs to a seeing-and-perceiving word family. English presents knowing as information held, while the Greek also carries the image of perception, and the exact hour remains beyond what any named figure perceives.
ALSO GROWS
eidon: A form of the verb εἴδω, meaning “to see.”
εἶδον
It shows that the verb translated “knoweth” also belongs to the language of seeing.
eidos: A related noun meaning form or appearance; it is rendered “sight” in 2 Corinthians 5:7.
εἶδος
This branch names what can be seen, echoing the verse’s boundary around what can be perceived or known.
THE PATTERN
An appointed time can belong to divine order while its full knowledge remains beyond human reach.
The hidden things belong to the LORD our God, but the uncovered things belong to us and to our children for the ages, that we may do all the words of this instruction.He makes everything radiant in its time. He also sets what is for the ages in their heart, so that no one can find the work God makes from head to end.He said to them, "It is not yours to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has set in his own power."THE THREAD
Keep your eyes open, stay awake, and pray, for you do not know when the season is.The next verse repeats οἶδα (oida, see, perceive, know) in “ye know not.” Mark places the unknown hour beside the present work of watching, so the limit on foreknowledge does not erase attention.
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