Luke 21:13-29

¹³Then will be your opportunity of witnessing for me.

¹⁴Make up your minds, therefore, not to prepare your defence;

¹⁵for I will myself give you words, and a wisdom which all your opponents together will be unable to resist or defy.

¹⁶You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and sisters and sisters and relatives and friends, and they will cause some of you to be put to death,

¹⁷and you will be hated by everyone because of me my name.

¹⁸Yet not a single hair of your heads will be lost!

¹⁹By your endurance you will win yourselves life.

²⁰As soon, however, as you see Jerusalem surrounded by armed camps, then you may know that the hour of her desecration is at hand.

²¹Then those of you who are in Judea must take refuge in the mountains, those who are in Jerusalem must leave at once, and those who are in the country places must not go into it.

²²For these are to be the days of vengeance, when all that scripture says will be fulfilled.

²³Alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great suffering in the land, and anger against this people.

²⁴They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be taken prisoners to every land, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles, until their day is over — as it will be.

²⁵There will be signs, too, in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth despair amongst the nations, in their dismay at the roar of the sea and the surge.

²⁶People's hearts will fail them through dread of what is coming upon the world; for the forces of the heavens will be convulsed.

²⁷Then will be seen the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

²⁸And, when these things begin to occur, look upwards and lift your heads, for your deliverance will be at hand.”

²⁹Then he taught them a lesson, saying — “Look at the fig tree and all the other trees.