Jesus

As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple, Kefa, Ya`akov, Yochanan and Andrew asked him privately,

Yeshua began speaking to them: "Watch out! Don't let anyone fool you!

Many will come in my name, saying, `I am he!' and they will fool many people.

"But you, watch yourselves! They will hand you over to the local Sanhedrins, you will be beaten up in synagogues, and on my account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

and everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out till the end will be delivered.

Indeed, if God had not limited the duration of the trouble, no one would survive; but for the sake of the elect, those whom he has chosen, he has limited it.

"At that time, if anyone says to you, `Look! Here's the Messiah!' or, `See, there he is!' -- don't believe him!

But you, watch out! I have told you everything in advance!

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with tremendous power and glory.

He will send out his angels and gather together his chosen people from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

Yes! I tell you that this people will certainly not pass away before all these things happen.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.

However, when that day and hour will come, no one knows -- not the angels in heaven, not the Son, just the Father.

"It's like a man who travels away from home, puts his servants in charge, each with his own task, and tells the doorkeeper to stay alert.

And what I say to you, I say to everyone: stay alert!"

It was now two days before Pesach (that is, the festival of Matzah), and the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers were trying to find some way to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;

While he was in Beit-Anyah in the home of Shim`on (a man who had had tzara`at), and as he was eating, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfume, pure oil of nard, very costly. She broke the jar and poured the perfume over Yeshua's head.

But he said, "Let her be. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me.

For you will always have the poor with you; and whenever you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.

What she could do, she did do -- in advance she poured perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.

Yes! I tell you that wherever in the whole world this Good News is proclaimed, what she has done will be told in her memory."

Then Y'hudah from K'riot, who was one of the Twelve, went to the head cohanim in order to betray Yeshua to them.

They were pleased to hear this and promised to give him money. And he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Yeshua.

On the first day for matzah, when they slaughtered the lamb for Pesach, Yeshua's talmidim asked him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare your Seder?"

He sent two of his talmidim with these instructions: "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him;