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A poor widow’s gift

¹Jesus looked up and watched as rich people dropped their gifts into the temple’s offering chests. ²He also noticed a needy widow drop in two pennies. ³Then he said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has given more than all the rest. ⁴Every one of them gave out of their surplus. But she, out of her need, has given the whole of what she had to live on.”

Not one stone on another

⁵Some people were talking about the temple: how fine its stones were, and how it was decorated with gifts given to God. Jesus said, ⁶“You are looking at all this. But days are coming when it will all be torn down, and not a stone will stay standing on another.”

⁷They put a question to him: “Teacher, when will these things be? And what sign will there be when they are about to take place?” ⁸He answered, “Take care that no one leads you astray. Many will come claiming my name and saying, ‘I am the one!’ and, ‘The time has come near!’ Do not go after them. ⁹When you hear about wars and rebellions, do not panic. All this has to happen first, but it does not mean that the end comes at once.” ¹⁰Then he went on to tell them, “One nation will go to war with another, and one kingdom with another. ¹¹There will be powerful earthquakes, and in place after place famines and diseases. Fearful things will happen, and great signs will appear in the sky.

¹²Before all that, however, they will arrest you and hunt you down. They will hand you over to synagogues and to prisons, and you will be led off to stand before kings and governors for the sake of my name. ¹³This will give you the chance to bear witness.^{a 14}So settle it in your hearts: do not plan your defense in advance. ¹⁵I myself will give you the words and the wisdom to speak, and not one of your opponents will be able to stand against them or argue back. ¹⁶You will be handed over even by your own parents and brothers and sisters, your relatives and your friends, and some of you they will kill. ¹⁷You will be hated by everyone on account of my name. ¹⁸Yet not a single hair of your head will be lost. ¹⁹Hold out to the end, and so win your lives.^b

Jerusalem surrounded

²⁰When you see Jerusalem with armies encamped all around it, then be sure that it will soon be laid waste. ²¹Then people in Judea should run for the hills. Those inside the city should leave it, and those out in the fields should not go back in. ²²For these are the days of punishment, when everything that is written will come true. ²³How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant or nursing a baby! Great hardship will come on the land, and wrath on this people. ²⁴They will be cut down by the sword and carried off as captives to every nation. Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles have run their course.^c

The Son of Man comes in a cloud

²⁵Signs will appear in the sun, the moon and the stars. On the earth whole nations will be gripped with distress, not knowing where to turn as the sea roars and heaves. ²⁶Fear will drain the strength out of people as they wait for what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷And then people will see the Son of Man come in a cloud with power and with great glory. ²⁸As soon as these things start to happen, straighten up and look up, for the day of your redemption is almost here.”

Learn from the fig tree

²⁹He told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and at all the trees. ³⁰Once they burst into leaf, you only need to look at them to know that summer is near. ³¹It is the same with you. When you see these things happening, be sure of this: the kingdom of God is near. ³²Truly I tell you, all of this will happen before this generation is gone.^{d 33}Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will last forever.

Stay awake and pray

³⁴Be on your guard. Do not let your hearts grow dull with wild parties and drinking and the worries of everyday life, or that day will catch you off guard, ³⁵like a trap that snaps shut. It will come on everyone who lives anywhere on earth. ³⁶Keep watch at all times, and pray for strength to come safely through all that is going to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”^e

³⁷By day Jesus was teaching in the temple. At night he would go out of the city and spend the night on the hill known as the Mount of Olives. ³⁸At dawn all the people would come to him in the temple to listen.