²³‘Then if any one may say to you, Lo, here is the Christ! or here! ye may not believe; ²⁴for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen. ²⁵Lo, I did tell you beforehand.

²⁶‘If therefore they may say to you, Lo, in the wilderness he is, ye may not go forth; lo, in the inner chambers, ye may not believe; ²⁷for as the lightning doth come forth from the east, and doth appear unto the west, so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man; ²⁸for wherever the carcase may be, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

²⁹‘And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; ³⁰and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth smite the breast, and they shall see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven, with power and much glory; ³¹and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.

³²‘And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer is nigh, ³³so also ye, when ye may see all these, ye know that it is nigh—at the doors. ³⁴Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass.

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