The Life of Jesus

but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.

`Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe)

then those in Judea--let them flee to the mounts;

he on the house-top--let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;

and he in the field--let him not turn back to take his garments.

`And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

and pray ye that your flight may not be in winter, nor on a sabbath;

for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

`Then if any one may say to you, Lo, here is the Christ! or here! ye may not believe;

for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.

Lo, I did tell you beforehand.

`If therefore they may say to you, Lo, in the wilderness he is, ye may not go forth; lo, in the inner chambers, ye may not believe;

for as the lightning doth come forth from the east, and doth appear unto the west, so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

for wherever the carcase may be, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

`And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;

and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth smite the breast, and they shall see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven, with power and much glory;

and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.

`And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer is nigh,

so also ye, when ye may see all these, ye know that it is nigh--at the doors.

Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass.

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

`And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known--not even the messengers of the heavens--except my Father only;

and as the days of Noah--so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;