³While he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what is the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”^p

⁴Jesus replied to them, “Watch out that no one deceives^q you. ⁵For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many.^r ⁶You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, because these things must take place, but the end is not yet. ⁷For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines^A^s and earthquakes in various places.^t ⁸All these events are the beginning of labor pains.^u

PERSECUTIONS PREDICTED

⁹“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name.^v ¹⁰Then many will fall away, betray one another, and hate one another. ¹¹Many false prophets^w will rise up and deceive many. ¹²Because lawlessness^x will multiply, the love of many will grow cold. ¹³But the one who endures to the end will be saved. ¹⁴This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world^B as a testimony to all nations,^y and then the end will come.^z

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Footnotes

AOther add epidemics
BOr in all the inhabited earth

Cross references

p Mt 21:1; 24:27,37,39
q Jr 29:8; Eph 5:6; Col 2:8; 2Th 2:3
r Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2
s Ac 11:28; Rv 6:8
t 2Ch 15:6; Is 19:2
u Lk 21:12–24
v Mt 10:17,22; Jn 16:2
w Is 44:25; Mt 7:15; 24:24; Mk 13:22; Lk 6:26; Ac 13:6; 2Pt 2:1; 1Jn 4:1
x Mt 13:41; 2Th 2:3
y Mt 4:23; Rm 10:18; Col 1:6,23; 1Th 1:8
z Lk 2:1; 4:5; Ac 11:28; 17:6; Rv 3:10; 16:14