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 will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
16. You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.
17. You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.
18. And not a hair of your head will perish.
19. “By your endurance you will win your lives.
20. “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
21. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.
22. For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
24. They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.