9. “But you, be on your guard! They will hand you over to sanhedrins, and you will be flogged in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of Me, as a witness to them.
10. And the good news must first be proclaimed to all nations.
11. So when they arrest you and hand you over, don’t worry beforehand what you will say. On the contrary, whatever is given to you in that hour — say it. For it isn’t you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
12. Then brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and put them to death.
13. And you will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.
14. “When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it should not” (let the reader understand ), “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains!
15. A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house.
16. And a man in the field must not go back to get his clothes.
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;