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in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
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For I will give you a mouth and
wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
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And ye shall be
betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and
some
of you shall they cause
to be put to death.
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And ye shall be hated of all
men
for my name’s sake.
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But there shall not
an hair of your head perish.
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In your patience possess ye your souls.
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And when ye shall see
Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
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Then let them
which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and
let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
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For these be the days of vengeance, that all
things which are written may be fulfilled.
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But woe unto them that are with child, and to them
that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
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And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and
Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
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And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth
distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
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Men’s hearts failing them
for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.
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And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great
glory.
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And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for
your redemption draweth nigh.
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And he spake to them a parable;
Behold the fig tree, and all the
trees;
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When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh
at hand.
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So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of
God is nigh at hand.
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Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
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Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
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And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and
drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
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For as a snare shall
it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
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Watch ye therefore, and pray
always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to
stand before the Son of man.
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And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he
went out, and abode in the mount that is called
the mount
of Olives.
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And all the people came
early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.
CHAPTER 22
Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
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And the chief priests
and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
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Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
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And he
went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto
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