12. Brothers and sisters will hand each other over to death. A father will turn in his children. Children will rise up against their parents and have them executed.
13. Everyone will hate you because of my name. But whoever stands firm until the end will be saved.
14. “When you see the disgusting and destructive thing standing where it shouldn’t be (the reader should understand this), then those in Judea must escape to the mountains.
15. Those on the roof shouldn’t come down or enter their houses to grab anything.
16. Those in the field shouldn’t come back to grab their clothes.
17. How terrible it will be at that time for women who are pregnant and for women who are nursing their children.
18. Pray that it doesn’t happen in winter.
19. In those days there will be great suffering such as the world has never before seen and will never again see.
20. If the Lord hadn’t shortened that time, no one would be rescued. But for the sake of the chosen ones, the ones whom God chose, he has cut short the time.
21. “Then if someone says to you, ‘Look, here’s the Christ,’ or ‘There he is,’ don’t believe it.
22. False christs and false prophets will appear, and they will offer signs and wonders in order to deceive, if possible, those whom God has chosen.
23. But you, watch out! I’ve told you everything ahead of time.
24. “In those days, after the suffering of that time, the sun will become dark, and the moon won’t give its light.
25. The stars will fall from the sky, and the planets and other heavenly bodies will be shaken.