12. “But before all these things, they will seize you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for My name’s sake.
13. It will turn out as a testimony for you.
14. Therefore resolve in your hearts beforehand not to practice your defense.
15. For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your opponents will be able to neither refute nor resist.
16. You will be betrayed by parents and brothers and relatives and friends. And they will put some of you to death.
17. You will be hated by all men for My name’s sake,
18. but not a hair of your head shall perish.
19. In your endurance you will gain your souls.
20. “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you know that its desolation has drawn near.
21. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are in the city depart, and let not those who are in the country enter it.
22. For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.
24. They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be led away captive to all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
25. “There will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring;