Luke 21
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And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the
treasury--rich men, 2 and he saw also a certain poor widow casting there two
mites, 3 and he said, `Truly I say to you, that this poor widow did cast in
more than all; 4 for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the
gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did
cast in.' 5 And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and
devoted things it hath been adorned, he said, 6 `These things that ye
behold--days will come, in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone,
that shall not be thrown down.' 7 And they questioned him, saying, `Teacher,
when, then, shall these things be? and what [is] the sign when these things may
be about to happen?' 8 And he said, `See--ye may not be led astray, for many
shall come in my name, saying--I am [he], and the time hath come nigh; go not
on then after them; 9 and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not
terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen
first, but the end [is] not immediately.' 10 Then said he to them, `Nation
shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, 11 great shakings also
in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things
also, and great signs from heaven there shall be; 12 and before all these, they
shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and
prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake; 13 and it
shall become to you for a testimony. 14 `Settle, then, to your hearts, not to
meditate beforehand to reply, 15 for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that
all your opposers shall not be able to refute or
resist. 16 `And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and
kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death; 17 and ye shall be
hated by all because of my name--18 and a hair out of your head shall not
perish; 19 in your patience possess ye your souls. 20 `And when ye may see
Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her
desolation; 21 then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those
in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not
come in to her; 22 because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things
that have been written. 23 `And woe to those with child, and to those giving
suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath
on this people; 24 and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be
led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations,
till the times of nations be fulfilled. 25 `And there shall be signs in sun,
and moon, and stars, and on the land [is] distress of nations with perplexity,
sea and billow roaring; 26 men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of
the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
27 `And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and
much glory; 28 and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and
lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.' 29 And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the
trees, 30 when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that
now is the summer nigh; 31 so also ye, when ye may see these things happening,
ye know that near is the reign of God; 32 verily I say to you--This generation
may not pass away till all may have come to pass; 33 the heaven and the earth shall
pass away, but my words may not pass away. 34 `And take heed to yourselves,
lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and
anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you, 35 for as a snare it
shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land, 36 watch ye,
then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all
these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of
Man.' 37 And he was during the days in the temple teaching, and during the
nights, going forth, he was lodging at the mount called of Olives; 38 and all
the people were coming early unto him in the temple to hear him.