17. Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!
18. Pray it won’t happen in winter.
19. For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of the world, which God created, until now and never will be again!
20. Unless the Lord limited those days, no one would survive. But He limited those days because of the elect, whom He chose.
21. “Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah! Look — there! ’ do not believe it!
22. For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and will perform signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
23. And you must watch! I have told you everything in advance.
24. “But in those days, after that tribulation: The sun will be darkened,and the moon will not shed its light;
25. the stars will be falling from the sky,and the celestial powers will be shaken.
26. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
27. He will send out the angels and gather His elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of the sky.
28. “Learn this parable from the fig tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.
29. In the same way, when you see these things happening, know that He is near — at the door!
30. I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.