What Does the Bible Say About Midnight?

Acts 16:25 ESV / 124 helpful votes

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 72 helpful votes

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...

Acts 20:7 ESV / 66 helpful votes

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

Revelation 3:3 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

Exodus 12:29 ESV / 61 helpful votes

At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.

John 4:23 ESV / 44 helpful votes

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Matthew 25:13 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 36 helpful votes

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

Psalm 30:5 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Psalm 119:62 ESV / 25 helpful votes

At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules.

1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Mark 14:26 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Daniel 5:30 ESV / 23 helpful votes

That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.

Joel 2:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 21 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Mark 16:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

2 Kings 6:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes

So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army, and they came by night and surrounded the city.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 18 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

James 5:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

1 Kings 3:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

Genesis 32:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

John 4:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Matthew 13:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Judges 16:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.

Genesis 40:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And one night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 14 helpful votes

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...

Matthew 3:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;

Romans 10:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Matthew 25:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 26:30 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Daniel 2:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

John 20:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

Daniel 12:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 10 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...

Job 34:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes

In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.

Luke 21:25-27 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Job 35:14-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression, Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.”

Ruth 3:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

At midnight the man was startled and turned over, and behold, a woman lay at his feet!

Ruth 3:1-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor. Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down, and he will tell you what to do.” And she replied, “All that you say I will do.” ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Acts 27:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes

When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.

Psalm 69:9-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

1 Kings 3:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.

Exodus 11:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt,

Genesis 28:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

Mark 13:35 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—

Luke 11:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,

Acts 17:1-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.” And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. ...

Psalm 119:55 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law.

Acts 15:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,

Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” ...

John 1:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

55 Bible Verses about Midnight

Acts 16:25 ESV / 124 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 72 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 20:7 ESV / 66 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 3:3 ESV / 64 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 12:29 ESV / 61 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 4:23 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:13 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 30:5 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:62 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 14:26 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 5:30 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joel 2:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 16:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 6:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 3:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 32:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 4:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Judges 16:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 40:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 3:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 10:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 26:30 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 2:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 20:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 12:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 34:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 21:25-27 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 35:14-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ruth 3:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ruth 3:1-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 27:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 69:9-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 3:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 11:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 28:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 13:35 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 11:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:1-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:55 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 15:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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