14. Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to answer:
15. for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or to gainsay.
16. But ye shall be delivered up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
17. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
18. And not a hair of your head shall perish.
19. In your patience ye shall win your souls.
20. But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.
21. Then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains; and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter therein.
22. For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23. Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath unto this people.
24. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
25. And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;
26. men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
27. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28. But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.
29. And he spake to them a parable: Behold the fig tree, and all the trees:
30. when they now shoot forth, ye see it and know of your own selves that the summer is now nigh.