Luke 21

The Widow’s Offering

1Jesus looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the temple treasury. 2He saw a poor widow casting in two small copper coins. 3He said, “Truly I tell y’all, this poor widow put in more than all of them. 4They all put in gifts from their wealth, but she, out of her poverty, has put in all that she had to live on.”

Watching for Signs of the End

5While some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said, 6“As for these things which y’all are looking at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another that will not be thrown down.”

7They questioned him, “Teacher, so when will these things happen? And what is the sign that these things are about to take place?”

8He said, “Y’all watch out that you* don’t get led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Y’all must not follow them. 9When y’all hear of wars and disturbances, y’all shouldn’t be frightened. Indeed, it is necessary for things to happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.”

10Then he told them, “Ethnic group will raised against ethnic group, and empire against empire. 11There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places, and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. 12But before all these things, they will lay their hands on y’all and will persecute y’all, delivering y’all up to synagogues and prisons, bringing y’all before kings and governors for my name’s sake. 13This will bring an opportunity for y’all to give a testimony. 14Therefore, y’all must decide in y’all’s hearts not to prepare a defense beforehand, 15because I will give y’all such words and wisdom that all y’all’s adversaries will not be able to resist or refute. 16Y’all will be betrayed even by parents, siblings, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of y’all put to death. 17Y’all will be hated by everyone for my name’s sake, 18yet not a hair from y’all’s heads will perish.

19 “By y’all’s endurance, y’all will gain your* lives.

20 “But when y’all see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, y’all must recognize that its desolation is near. 21Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter it, 22because these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the ethnic groups until the times of the nations are fulfilled.

25 “There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars, and on the earth there will distress among the ethnic groups anxious over the roaring of the sea and crashing waves. 26Humans will faint from terror and the expectation of the things that are coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27At that time, they will see the Son of Humanity coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28But when these things start to happen, y’all should stand up and lift your* heads, because y’all’s redemption is drawing near.”

29Then He told them a parable. “Y’all look at the fig tree and all the trees. 30When they sprout leaves, y’all see for yourselves and y’all know that the summer is already near. 31In the same way, when y’all see these things happening, y’all should know that the Empire of God is near. 32Truly I tell y’all, this generation will not pass away until all things have happened. 33Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

34 “But y’all be careful, or y’all’s hearts will be weighed down with intoxication, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, and that day will come down on y’all unexpectedly like a trap. 35For it will come on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth. 36But y’all be watchful at all times, praying that y’all may be counted worthy to escape all that is about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Humanity.”

37Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the what is called the Mount of Olives. 38All the people came early in the morning to hear him in the temple.

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