Part 35

021:015 for I will give you utterance and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to withstand or reply to.

021:016 You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, friends; and some of you they will put to death.

021:017 You will be the objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name;

021:018 and yet not a hair of your heads shall perish.

021:019 By your patient endurance you will purchase your lives.

021:020 "But when you see Jerusalem with armies encamping round her on every side, then be certain that her overthrow is close at hand.

021:021 Then let those who shall be in Judaea escape to the hills; let those who are in the city leave it, and those who are in the country not enter in.

021:022 For those are the days of vengeance and of fulfilling all that is written.

021:023 "Alas for the women who at that time are with child or who have infants; for there will be great distress in the land, and anger towards this People.

021:024 They will fall by the sword, or be carried off into slavery among all the Gentiles. And Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles, till the appointed times of the Gentiles have expired.

021:025 "There will be signs in sun, moon, and stars; and on earth anguish among the nations in their bewilderment at the roaring of the sea and its billows;

021:026 while men's hearts are fainting for fear, and for anxious expectation of what is coming on the world. For the forces which control the heavens will be disordered and disturbed.

021:027 And then will they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great power and glory.

021:028 But when all this is beginning to take place, grieve no longer. Lift up your heads, because your deliverance is drawing near."

021:029 And He spoke a parable to them. "See," He said, "the fig-tree and all the trees.

021:030 As soon as they have shot out their leaves, you know at a glance that summer is now near.

021:031 So also, when you see these things happening, you may be sure that the Kingdom of God is near.

021:032 I tell you in solemn truth that the present generation will certainly not pass away without all these things having first taken place.

021:033 Earth and sky will pass away, but it is certain that my words will not pass away.

021:034 "But take heed to yourselves, lest your souls be weighed down with self-indulgence and drunkenness or the anxieties of this life, and that day come upon you, suddenly, like a falling trap;

021:035 for it will come on all dwellers on the face of the whole earth.

021:036 But beware of slumbering; and every moment pray that you may be fully strengthened to escape from all these coming evils, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

021:037 His habit at this time was to teach in the Temple by day, but to go out and spend the night on the Mount called the Oliveyard.

021:038 And all the people came to Him in the Temple, early in the morning, to listen to Him.

022:001 Meanwhile the Festival of the Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,

022:002 and the High Priests and the Scribes were contriving how to destroy Him. But they feared the people.

022:003 Satan, however, entered into Judas (the man called Iscariot) who was one of the Twelve.

022:004 He went and conferred with the High Priests and Commanders as to how he should deliver Him up to them.