29 first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become 27 clean. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are like whited sepulchres, which* appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's 28 bones and all uncleanness. Thus also ye appear outwardly righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments 30 of the just, and ye say: If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in 31 the blood of the prophets. So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are the sons of those who slew the prophets : 32 and ye, fill ye up the measure of your 33 fathers. Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of gehenna? 34 Therefore, behold I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, * OITIVES, which are such as. H and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from 35 city to city; so that all the righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the 36 temple* and the altar. Verily I say unto you: All these things shall come upon this generation. 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, 38 and ye would not; behold your house is 39 left unto you desolate, for I say unto you: Ye shall in not wise see me henceforth until you say: Blessed be he that comes in the name of the Lord. XXIV. And Jesus went forth and went away from the temple,§ and his disciples *Naos. † Ou un, stronger than 'not.' Kupios, without an article for Jehovah. came to [him] to point out to him the 2 buildings of the temple.* And Jesus said to them: Do ye not see all these things? Verily I say to you: Not a stone shall be left here upon a stone 3 which shall not be thrown down. And as he was sitting upon the Mount of Olives his disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us, when shall these things be, and what is the sign of thy coming, and of the completion of the age? • And Jesus answering, said to them: See 5 that no one mislead you. For many shall come in my name, saying: I am the Christ, and they shall mislead many. But ye will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not disturbed; for all [these] things must take place, but it is not yet the end. For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places. But all these are the beginning of throes. Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall * See last note preceding page. 9 kill you; and ye shall be hated of all 10 the nations for my name's sake. And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one 11 another; and many false prophets shall 12 arise and shall mislead many; and be cause lawlessness shall prevail, the love 13 of the* most shall grow cold; but he that endures to the end he shall be saved. 14 And these glad tidings of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole habitable earth for a witness to all the nations, 15 and then shall come the end. When, therefore, ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which is spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in [what is] a holy place,† (let him that reads understand,) Twv Toλλwv, the mass, but here that would tend to give the idea of the mass of the people, not professors. 6 †The holy place leads the mind to search what the holy place meant is. Holy place is without an article and characteristic; an abomination stands in holy place, but this is scarcely English; on holy ground,' would be, because it is extended, not a defined locality like place; but, in a holy place, designates also some particular place, the Greek does not. I have inserted 'what is' to generalize it. 16 then let those who are in Judæa flee to 17 the mountains; let not him that is on the house come down to take the* things 18 out of his house; and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his 19 clothes. But woe to those that are with child, and those that give suck in those 20 days. But pray that your flight may not be in winter time nor on Sabbath: 21 for then shall there be great tribulation such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor never shall 22 be; and if those days had not been shortened no flesh had been saved; but on account of the elect, those days shall 23 be shortened. Then if any one say to you: Behold, here is the Christ, or here, 24 believe [it] not. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders so as to 25 mislead, if† possible, even the elect. Be26 hold, I have told you beforehand. If, * T. R. reads, anything.' † 'If possible' is the purpose of the deceivers; 'if it were' the judgment of the writer. It seems to me simpler to take as in text. It still implies it is not possible.' |