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Luke

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Luke 21 📜 📕 ↷

Poor Widow's Offering

1 AND beholding, he saw them that did cast their gifts into the treasury, rich persons.📜💬📚

2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting two brass mites.📜💬📚

3 And he said: Verily I say to you, that this poor widow hath cast more than all.📜💬📚

4 For all these of their aboundance have cast into the gifts of God: but she of her penury, hath cast in all her living that she had.📜💬📚

Temple Destruction and Other Signs

5 And certain, saying of the temple that it was adorned with goodly stones and donaries, he said:📜💬📚

6 These things which you see, the days will come wherein there shall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed.📜💬📚

7 And they asked him, saying: Master, when shall these things be: and what shall be the sign when they shall begin to come to pass?📜💬📚

8 Who said: See you be not seduced. For many will come in my name, saying that I am he: and the time is at hand, go not therefore after them.📜💬📚

9 And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified: these things must first come to pass, but the end is not yet by and by.📜💬📚

Witnessing to All Nations

10 Then he said to them: Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.📜💬📚

11 And there shall be great earth-quakes in places, and pestilences and famines, and terrors from Heaven, and there shall be great signs.📜💬📚

12 But before all these things they will lay their hands upon you: and persecute you delivering you into Synagogues and prisons, drawing you to kings and Presidents for my name.📜💬📚

13 and it shall happen unto you for testimony.📜💬📚

14 Lay up this therefore in your hearts, not to premeditate how you shall answer.📜💬📚

15 For I will give you mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.📜💬📚

16 And you shall be delivered up of your parents and brethren, and kinsmen and friends: and they will put to death of you.📜💬📚

17 And you shall be odious to all men for my name:📜💬📚

18 and a hair of your head shall not perish.📜💬📚

19 In your patience you shall possess your souls.📜💬📚

Destruction of Jerusalem

20 And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.📜💬📚

21 then they that are in Jewry, let them flee to the mountains: and they in the midst thereof, let them depart: and they in the countries, let them not enter into it.📜💬📚

22 For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be fulfilled that are written.📜💬📚

23 But woe to them that are with child & that give suck in those days. For there shall be great affliction upon the land, and wrath on this people.📜💬📚

24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword; and shall be led captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden of the Gentiles, till the times of nations be fulfilled.📜💬📚

Return of the Son of Man

25 And there shall be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars: and upon earth distress of nations, for the confusion of the sound of sea and waves,📜💬📚

26 men withering for fear and expectation, what shall come upon the whole world. For the powers of Heaven shall be moved:📜💬📚

27 and then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud with great power and majesty.📜💬📚

28 But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads: because your redemption is at hand.📜💬📚

Lesson of the Fig Tree

29 And he spake to them a similitude. See the figtree and all trees:📜💬📚

30 when they now bud forth fruit out of them selves, you know that summer is nigh.📜💬📚

31 So you also when you shall see these things come to pass, know that the Kingdom of God is nigh.📜💬📚

32 Amen I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all be done.📜💬📚

33 Heaven and earth shall pass; but my words shall not pass.📜💬📚

Be Watchful for the Day

34 And look well to your selves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.📜💬📚

35 For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of all the earth.📜💬📚

36 Watch therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come, and to stand before the Son of man.📜💬📚

37 And the days he was teaching in the temple: but the nights, going forth, he abode in the mount that is called Olivet.📜💬📚

38 And all the people in the morning went unto him in the temple to hear him.📜💬📚