23:24.

You blind guides!

You strain out a gnat

And swallow a camel!

Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

For

you

clean the outside of the cup and of the dish,

But inside they are full from extortion and ex

cess.

You blind Pharisee!

Clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish,

So that the outside may be clean also.

Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

For you are like whited sepulchres which outside appear beautiful,

But inside are full of dead men's bones and

of all uncleanness.

In the same way also, you outside appear to men good,

But inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

23: 29.

For you build the tombs of the prophets,

And decorate the graves of good men,

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And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers

We should not have shared with them in the

blood of the prophets.

So you are your own witnesses

That you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.

Fill up then the measure of your fathers.

You serpents! You brood of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of ge

henna?

So I send you prophets,

And wise men, and scribes.

Some of them you will kill and crucify,
Some of them you will beat in your syna-

gogues,

And persecute from city to city,

That on you may come

All the good blood shed on the earth,

From the blood of Abel the good

To the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, Whom they slew between the Holy Place and the altar.

To tell you the truth:

All these things will come on this generation.

23:37.

O Jerusalem! Jerusalem!

The killer of the prophets,

And stoner of those sent to you.

How often did I desire to gather your children together,

As a hen gathers her chickens under her wings,

And you were not willing.

Listen, your house is left to you desolate.

For I tell you: You will never see me again

Till you say

Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."

Jesus went out from the temple and was going his way, and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. But he answered and said to them:

"Do you not see all these? To tell you the truth, There will not be left here one stone on another which will not be thrown down.”

Now while he was sitting on the mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said to him :

"Tell us when these things will be and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world."

24: 4.

Jesus answered and said to them: "See that no one deceives you.

For many will come in my name,
And say, I am the Christ,

And will deceive many.

And you will hear of wars and rumors of

wars.

See that you are not troubled,

For it must happen,

But the end is not yet.

For nation will rise against nation

Kingdom against kingdom,

There will be famines and earthquakes

In different places.

But all these are the beginning of birth pangs.

Then they will hand you over to tribulation,

And will kill you.

You will be hated by all the nations

For my name's sake.

Then many will be offended.

They will betray each other,
And will hate each other.
Many false prophets will rise,
And will lead many astray,

And because lawlessness abounds,

The love of the many will grow cold,

24: 13.

But he who endures to the end,

He will be saved.

The good news of the Kingdom

Will be preached in the whole world,
For a witness to all the nations,

And then will the end come.

So when you see the abomination of desolation
Spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
Standing in the Holy Place,

(Let him who reads, understand), Then let those in Judæa

Flee to the mountains.

Let him who is on the housetop

Not go down to take his things out of the

house.

And let him who is in the field

Not turn back to take his clothes.

But woe to those with child!

To those giving suck in those days!

But

pray that your flight be not in the winter, Nor on the Sabbath.

For then will be great tribulation

Such as was not from the beginning of the world

Till this time,

Nor ever will be.