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| [1] | AND he looked up, and 1 saw the rich men that were casting their gifts into the treasury. |
| [2] | And he saw a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. |
| [3] | And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, This poor widow cast in more than they all: |
| [4] | for all these did of their superfluity cast in unto the gifts; but she of her want did cast in all the living that she had. |
| [5] | And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and offerings, he said, |
| [6] | As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in which there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. |
| [7] | And they asked him, saying, Teacher, when therefore shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when these things are about to come to pass? |
| [8] | And he said, Take heed that ye be not led astray: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am he; and, The time is at hand: go ye not after them. |
| [9] | And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified: for these things must needs come to pass first; but the end is not immediately. |
| [10] | Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; |
| [11] | And there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven. |
| [12] | But before all these things, they shall lay their hands on you, and shall persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, bringing 2 you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. |
| [13] | It shall turn out unto you for a testimony. |
| [14] | Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to answer: |
| [15] | for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or to gainsay. |
| [16] | But ye shall be delivered 3 up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall 4 they cause to be put to death. |
| [17] | And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. |
| [18] | And not a hair of your head shall perish. |
| [19] | In your patience 5 ye shall win your souls. 6 |
| [20] | But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her desolution is at hand. |
| [21] | Then let them that are in Judæa flee unto the mountains; and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter therein. |
| [22] | For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. |
| [23] | Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, 7 and wrath unto this people. |
| [24] | And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. |
| [25] | And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows; |
| [26] | men fainting 8 for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: 9 for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. |
| [27] | And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. |
| [28] | But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh. |
| [29] | And he spake to them a parable: Behold the fig tree, and all the trees: |
| [30] | when they now shoot forth, ye see it and know of your own selves that the summer is now nigh. |
| [31] | Even so ye also, when ye see these things coming to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh. |
| [32] | Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away: but my words shall not pass away. |
| [33] | But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare: |
| [34] | for so shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of all the earth. |
| [35] | But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. |
| [36] | And every day he was teaching in the temple; and every night he went out, and lodged in the mount that is called Olivet. |
| [37] | And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, to hear him. |
