10. First the gospel must be preached to all nations.
11. When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
12. Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
13. You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
14. “But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.
15. The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house.
16. The one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.
17. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!
18. Pray that it may not be in winter.
19. For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.
20. And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them short.