16. You will be handed over by your parents, your brothers, your relatives, and your friends; and some of you will be put to death.
17. Everyone will hate you because of me.
18. But not a single hair from your heads will be lost.
19. Stand firm, and you will save yourselves.
20. “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that it will soon be destroyed.
21. Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills; those who are in the city must leave, and those who are out in the country must not go into the city.
22. For those will be ‘The Days of Punishment’, to make all that the Scriptures say come true.
23. How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies! Terrible distress will come upon this land, and God's punishment will fall on this people.
24. Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.