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Not one stone left on another

¹Jesus was on his way out of the temple when one of his disciples exclaimed to him, “Teacher, look! Such stones! Such buildings!” ²Jesus replied, “You see these great buildings? Not one stone here will be left resting on another. Every one will be pulled down.”

³Then, while he sat on the Mount of Olives facing the temple, four of them, Peter, James, John and Andrew, put a question to him in private: ⁴“Tell us, when will these things take place? And what sign will there be when all of them are about to reach their completion?” ⁵Jesus began to speak to them: “Be on your guard, so that nobody leads you astray. ⁶Many will come using my name and saying, ‘I am he,’ and they will lead many astray. ⁷When you hear of wars, and news of wars far away, do not be shaken. These things have to come, but that is not yet the end. ⁸Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. Earthquakes will strike in one place after another, and there will be famines. All this is only the first of the birth pains. ⁹As for you, be on your guard. People will hand you over to the councils, and you will be flogged in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them. ¹⁰And first the gospel has to be proclaimed to all the nations. ¹¹When they take you away to hand you over, do not be anxious in advance about what you will say. Whatever words are given to you in that hour, speak them. It will not be you who are speaking. It will be the Holy Spirit. ¹²Brothers will hand their brothers over to be killed, and fathers their children. Children will rise up against their parents and send them to their deaths. ¹³Everyone will hate you because of my name. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.

When you see the abomination

¹⁴But when you see the abomination that brings ruin standing where he has no right to be (let the reader take note), then those who are in Judea must escape to the hills. ¹⁵Anyone who is on the roof must not go down into the house to fetch anything out of it. ¹⁶Anyone who is out in the field must not go back for a cloak.^{a 17}How terrible it will be in those days for women who are expecting a child or nursing a baby! ¹⁸Pray that this does not come in winter. ¹⁹For those days will bring distress unlike any there has been from the beginning, when God created the world, until now, or ever will be again. ²⁰If the Lord had not cut those days short, no one at all would survive. But because of the chosen, those he chose for himself, he has cut the days short. ²¹At that time, if anyone tells you, ‘See, here is Christ!’ or ‘See, there he is!’ do not believe it. ²²For false christs and false prophets will rise up and do signs and wonders, so as to lead the chosen ones astray, if that could be done. ²³So you must be on your guard. I have told you all of it in advance.

The Son of Man coming in the clouds

²⁴But in those days, after that time of distress, the sun will grow dark and the moon will give no light. ²⁵Stars will come falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. ²⁶Then people will see the Son of Man come in clouds, with great power and glory. ²⁷And then he will send out the angels and gather the chosen ones from all four winds, from the farthest edge of the earth to the farthest edge of the sky.

Learn from the fig tree

²⁸Learn this parable from the fig tree. Once its branch turns soft and its leaves sprout, you know summer is close. ²⁹So too with you: when you see these things happening, be sure that it is near, right at the door.^{b 30}Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away before all these things take place.^{c 31}Heaven and earth will pass away, yet my words will never pass away.

Keep awake

³²As for that day or hour, nobody knows it, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son. Only the Father knows. ³³Be on your guard and stay alert, because you do not know when the time will come.^{d 34}It is like a man who goes away from home. He leaves his house, puts his servants in charge, each with a task to do, and orders the doorkeeper to keep watch. ³⁵So keep watch, since you cannot know when the master of the house is coming: in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or at dawn. ³⁶Otherwise he may arrive suddenly and find you asleep. ³⁷What I tell you, I tell everyone: Keep watch!”