Part 20

013:026 And then will they see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

013:027 Then He will send forth the angels and gather together His chosen People from north, south, east and west, from the remotest parts of the earth and the sky.

013:028 "Learn from the fig-tree the lesson it teaches. As soon as its branch has become soft and it is bursting into leaf, you know that summer is near.

013:029 So also do you, when you see these things happening, be sure that He is near, at your very door.

013:030 I tell you in solemn truth that the present generation will certainly not pass away without all these things having first taken place.

013:031 Earth and sky will pass away, but it is certain that my words will not pass away.

013:032 "But as to that day or the exact time no one knows--not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

013:033 Take care, be on the alert, and pray; for you do not know when it will happen.

013:034 It is like a man living abroad who has left his house, and given the management to his servants--to each one his special duty-- and has ordered the porter to keep awake.

013:035 Be wakeful therefore, for you know not when the master of the house is coming--in the evening, at midnight, at cock-crow, or at dawn.

013:036 Beware lest He should arrive unexpectedly and find you asleep.

013:037 Moreover, what I say to you I say to all--Be wakeful!"

014:001 It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.

014:002 But they said, "Not on the Festival-day, for fear there should be a riot among the people."

014:003 Now when He was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while He was at table, there came a woman with a jar of pure, sweet-scented ointment very costly: she broke the jar and poured the ointment over His head.

014:004 But there were some who said indignantly among themselves, "Why has the ointment been thus wasted?

014:005 For that ointment might have been sold for fifteen pounds or more, and the money have been given to the poor." And they were exceedingly angry with her.

014:006 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone: why are you troubling her? She has done a most gracious act towards me.

014:007 For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you choose you can do acts of kindness to them; but me you have not always.

014:008 What she could she did: she has perfumed my body in preparation for my burial.

014:009 And I solemnly tell you that wherever in the whole world the Good News shall be proclaimed, this which she has done shall also be told in remembrance of her."

014:010 But Judas Iscariot, already mentioned as one of the Twelve, went to the High Priests to betray Jesus to them.

014:011 They gladly listened to his proposal, and promised to give him a sum of money. So he looked out for an opportunity to betray Him.

014:012 On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread--the day for killing the Passover lamb--His disciples asked Him, "Where shall we go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

014:013 So He sent two of His disciples with instructions, saying, "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water: follow him,

014:014 and whatever house he enters, tell the master of the house, 'The Rabbi asks, Where is my room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?'

014:015 Then he will himself show you a large room upstairs, ready furnished: there make preparation for us."

014:016 So the disciples went out and came to the city, and found everything just as He had told them; and they got the Passover ready.