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Chapter 24 |
| 1 | And Jesus went
out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew
him the buildings of the temple. |
| 2 | And Jesus said unto them, See
ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here
one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. |
| 3 | And as he sat
upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell
us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and
of the end of the world? |
| 4 | And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take
heed that no man deceive you. |
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5 | For many shall come in my name, saying,
I am Christ; and shall deceive many. |
| 6 | And ye shall hear of wars and
rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to
pass, but the end is not yet. |
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7 | For nation shall rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and
earthquakes, in divers places. |
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8 | All these are the beginning of
sorrows. |
| 9
| Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall
kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. |
| 10 |
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate
one another. |
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11 | And many false prophets shall rise, and shall
deceive many. |
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12 | And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many
shall wax cold. |
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13 | But he that shall endure unto the end, the same
shall be saved. |
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14 | And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in
all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end
come. |
| 15 |
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let
him understand:) |
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16 | Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the
mountains: |
| 17
| Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take
any thing out of his house: |
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18 | Neither let him which is in the field
return back to take his clothes. |
| 19 | And woe unto them that are
with child, and to them that give suck in those days! |
| 20 | But pray ye
that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: |
| 21 |
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the
world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. |
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22 | And except those days
should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake
those days shall be shortened. |
| 23 | Then if any man shall say
unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. |
| 24 | For there
shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and
wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect. |
| 25
| Behold, I have told you before. |
| 26 | Wherefore if
they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he
is in the secret chambers; believe it not. |
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27 | For as the lightning
cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be. |
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28 | For wheresoever the carcase is, there
will the eagles be gathered together. |
| 29 | Immediately after the
tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not
give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the
heavens shall be shaken: |
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30 | And then shall appear the sign of the
Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and
they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory. |
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31 | And he shall send his angels with a great sound of
a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from
one end of heaven to the other. |
| 32 | Now learn a parable of the
fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that
summer is nigh: |
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33 | So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things,
know that it is near, even at the doors. |
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34 | Verily I say unto you,
This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. |
| 35 |
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. |
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But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my
Father only. |
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37 | But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be. |
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38 | For as in the days that were before
the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noe entered into the ark, |
| 39 | And knew not until the flood
came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be. |
| 40 |
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and
the other left. |
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41 | Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one
shall be taken, and the other left. |
| 42 | Watch therefore: for ye know
not what hour your Lord doth come. |
| 43 | But know this, that if the
goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would
have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. |
| 44 |
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man
cometh. |
| 45
| Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord
hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? |
| 46 |
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so
doing. |
| 47
| Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over
all his goods. |
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48 | But and if that evil servant shall say in his
heart, My lord delayeth his coming; |
| 49 | And shall begin to smite his
fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; |
| 50 | The lord of
that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour
that he is not aware of, |
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51 | And shall cut him asunder, and appoint
him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth. |
