12. Brothers and sisters will betray each other and have each other put to death. Parents will betray their own children, and children will turn against their parents and have them killed.
13. Everyone will hate you because of me. But if you keep on being faithful right to the end, you will be saved.
14. Some day you will see that “Horrible Thing” where it should not be. Everyone who reads this must try to understand! If you are living in Judea at that time, run to the mountains.
15. If you are on the roof of your house, don't go inside to get anything.
16. If you are out in the field, don't go back for your coat.
17. It will be an awful time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children.
18. Pray that it won't happen in winter.
19. This will be the worst time of suffering since God created the world, and nothing this terrible will ever happen again.
20. If the Lord doesn't make the time shorter, no one will be left alive. But because of his chosen and special ones, he will make the time shorter.
21. If someone should say, “Here is the Messiah!” or “There he is!” don't believe it.
22. False messiahs and false prophets will come and perform miracles and signs. They will even try to fool God's chosen ones.