Mark 13:1–20

Things to Come

^1aAs He was going out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, behold ¹what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!”

²And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? ^aNot one stone will be left upon another which will not be torn down.”

³As He was sitting on ^athe Mount of Olives opposite the temple, ^bPeter and ¹James and John and Andrew were questioning Him privately,

⁴“Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the ¹sign when all these things are going to be fulfilled?”

⁵And Jesus began to say to them, “See to it that no one misleads you.

⁶“Many will come in My name, saying, ‘^aI am He!’ and will mislead many.

⁷“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened; those things must take place; but that is not yet the end.

⁸“For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

⁹“But ¹be on your guard; for they will ^adeliver you to the ²courts, and you will be flogged in the synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them.

¹⁰“^aThe gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

¹¹“^aWhen they ¹arrest you and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but it is the Holy Spirit.

¹²“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and ¹have them put to death.

¹³“^aYou will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.

¹⁴“But ^awhen you see the ^babomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

¹⁵“^aThe one who is on the housetop must not go down, or go in to get anything out of his house;

¹⁶and the one who is in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

¹⁷“But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

¹⁸“But pray that it may not happen in the winter.

¹⁹“For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred ^asince the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will.

²⁰“Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no ¹life would have been saved; but for the sake of the ²elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.