5. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.
6. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
7. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
8. But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
9. Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
10. Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
11. Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.
12. Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
13. But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
14. This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
15. “When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
16. then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
17. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.
18. Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
19. But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
20. Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,