9. “Watch out for yourselves. They will hand you over to the courts. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will be arraigned before governors and kings because of me, as a witness before them.
10. But the gospel must first be preached to all nations.
11. When they lead you away and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say. But say whatever will be given to you at that hour. For it will not be you who are speaking but the holy Spirit.
12. Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.
13. You will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
14. “When you see the desolating abomination standing where he should not (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains,
15. [and] a person on a housetop must not go down or enter to get anything out of his house,
16. and a person in a field must not return to get his cloak.
17. Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days.
18. Pray that this does not happen in winter.
19. For those times will have tribulation such as has not been since the beginning of God’s creation until now, nor ever will be.
20. If the Lord had not shortened those days, no one would be saved; but for the sake of the elect whom he chose, he did shorten the days.
21. If anyone says to you then, ‘Look, here is the Messiah! Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.
22. False messiahs and false prophets will arise and will perform signs and wonders in order to mislead, if that were possible, the elect.
23. Be watchful! I have told it all to you beforehand.
24. “But in those days after that tribulationthe sun will be darkened,and the moon will not give its light,
25. and the stars will be falling from the sky,and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
26. And then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in the clouds’ with great power and glory,