Gospel According To Luke

Gospel According to Luke (MLV)

Luke 21)

^21:1 And he looked up and saw the rich men who were casting their gifts into the treasury.^21:2 And he saw a certain poor widow casting two leptons in there.^21:3 And he said, Truly I say to you*, This poor widow cast in more than they all:^21:4 for* all these out of what was abounding to them cast in the gifts; but she cast in out of her destitution all the livelihood that she had.

^21:5 And as some spoke about the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and offerings, he said,^21:6 As for these things which you* behold, the days will come, in which one stone will not be left here upon another, that will not be torn-down.

^21:7 And they asked him, saying, Teacher, when therefore will these things be? And what shall be the sign when these things are about to happen?

^21:8 And he said, See that you* are not misled: for* many will come in my name, saying, I am he; and, The time has drawn near: you* do not go after them.^21:9 And when you* will hear of wars and unrest, do not be terrified: for* these things must happen first; but the end is not immediately.

^21:10 Then he said to them, Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom;^21:11 and there will be great earthquakes and in different places famines and pestilences; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.^21:12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you* and will persecute you*, delivering up to the synagogues and prisons, you* being brought before kings and governors because of my name.^21:13 It will turn out to you* for a testimony.^21:14 Settle it therefore in your* hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to make a defense:^21:15 for* I will give you* a mouth and wisdom, which all who antagonize you* will not be able to withstand or to speak against.^21:16 But you* will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relatives and friends; and some of you* they will put to death.^21:17 And you* will be hated by all men because of my name.^21:18 And a hair of your* head will not perish.^21:19 You* will win your* souls in your* patient endurance.

^21:20 But when you* see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that her desolation has drawn near.^21:21 Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let those who are in the midst of her depart out; and do not let those who are in the country enter in it.^21:22 Because these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.^21:23 Woe to those who are with child and to those who are nursing in those days! For* a great calamity will be upon the land and wrath to this people.^21:24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword and will be brought into captivity into all the nations and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles is fulfilled.

^21:25 And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth dismay of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;^21:26 men _<33>fainting from fear and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world*: for* the powers of the heavens will be shaken.^21:27 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.^21:28 But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your* heads; because your* redemption is drawing near.

^21:29 And he spoke to them a parable: Behold the fig tree and all the trees:^21:30 when already they shoot forth, you*, looking at them know from yourselves that the summer is already near.^21:31 Even so you* also, when you* see these things happening, you* know that the kingdom of God is near.^21:32 Truly I say to you*, This generation will not pass away, until all things happen.^21:33 Heaven and earth will pass away: but my words will not pass away.

^21:34 But take-heed to yourselves, lest your* hearts be overburdened with a drunken-sickness and drunkenness and cares of this life and that day should suddenly _<34>come upon you*;^21:35 for* it will come as a snare upon all those sitting upon the face of all the earth.^21:36 But you* watch in every season, making supplication, that you* may be deemed worthy to escape all these things which are about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.

^21:37 And every day he was teaching in the temple; and every night he went out and lodged in the mountain that is called Olives.^21:38 And all the people came to hear him early in the morning to him in the temple.

<33> 21:26- OR: expiring,

<34> 21:34 LIT: stand upon OR be impending to; See 1 Thes. 5:13.