²And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen I say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed.

³And when he was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the consummation of the world?

⁴And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you.

⁵For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will seduce many.

⁶And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not yet.

⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in places.

⁸Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.

⁹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.

¹⁰And then shall many be scandalized and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.

¹¹And many false prophets shall rise and shall seduce many.

¹²And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.

¹³But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.

¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations: and then shall the consummation come.

¹⁵When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.

¹⁶Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains:

¹⁷And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:

¹⁸And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat.

¹⁹And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

²⁰But pray that your flight be not in the winter or on the sabbath.

²¹For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.

²²And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.

²³Then if any man shall say to you, Lo here is Christ, or there: do not believe him.

²⁴For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.

²⁵Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.

²⁶If therefore they shall say to you, Behold he is in the desert: go ye not out. Behold he is in the closets: believe it not.

²⁷For as lightning cometh out of the east and appeareth even into the west: so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

²⁸Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.

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