The Life of Jesus

in your patience possess ye your souls.

`And when ye may see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her desolation;

then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her;

because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.

`And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.

`And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;

men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

`And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and much glory;

and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'

And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the trees,

when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;

so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;

verily I say to you--This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;

the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,

watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

And he was during the days in the temple teaching, and during the nights, going forth, he was lodging at the mount called of Olives;

and all the people were coming early unto him in the temple to hear him.

And the feast of the unleavened food was coming nigh, that is called Passover,

and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.

And the Adversary entered into Judas, who is surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve,

and he, having gone away, spake with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might deliver him up to them,

and they rejoiced, and covenanted to give him money,