²⁵‘And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring; ²⁶men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

²⁷‘And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and much glory; ²⁸and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.’

²⁹And he spake a simile to them: ‘See the fig-tree, and all the trees, ³⁰when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh; ³¹so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God; ³²verily I say to you—This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass; ³³the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.

³⁴‘And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you, ³⁵for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land, ³⁶watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.’

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