24:9 “Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations ²  because of my name. ³  24:10 Then many will be led into sin, ⁴  and they will betray one another and hate one another. 24:11 And many false prophets will appear and deceive ⁵  many, 24:12 and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold. 24:13 But the person who endures to the end will be saved. ⁶  24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, ⁷  and then the end will come.

24:15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation ⁸  – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 24:16 then those in Judea must flee ⁹  to the mountains. 24:17 The one on the roof ¹⁰  must not come down ¹¹  to take anything out of his house, 24:18 and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. 24:19 Woe ¹²  to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! 24:20 Pray ¹³  that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. 24:21 For then there will be great suffering ¹⁴  unlike anything that has happened ¹⁵  from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen. 24:22 And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. 24:23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ ¹⁶  or ‘There he is!’ do not believe him. 24:24 For false messiahs ¹⁷  and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 24:25 Remember, ¹⁸  I have told you ahead of time. 24:26 So then, if someone ¹⁹  says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ ²⁰  do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him. 24:27 For just like the lightning ²¹  comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. 24:28 Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures ²²  will gather. ²³ 

24:29 “Immediately ²⁴  after the suffering ²⁵  of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken. ²⁶  24:30 Then ²⁷  the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, ²⁸  and ²⁹  all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They ³⁰  will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven ³¹  with power and great glory. 24:31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven ³²  to the other.