¹²and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake; ¹³and it shall become to you for a testimony.

¹⁴‘Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply, ¹⁵for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.

¹⁶‘And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death; ¹⁷and ye shall be hated by all because of my name— ¹⁸and a hair out of your head shall not perish; ¹⁹in your patience possess ye your souls.

²⁰‘And when ye may see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her desolation; ²¹then 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; ²²because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.

²³‘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; ²⁴and 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.

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