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"Nowlearn the parable from the figtree: when its branch has alreadybecometender and putsforth its leaves, you know that summer is near.
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"Even so, you too, when you seethesethingshappening, recognize that He is near, right at the door.
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"Truly I say to you, thisgeneration will not passawayuntilallthesethingstakeplace.
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"Heaven and earth will passaway, but My words will not passaway.
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"1But of that dayorhournooneknows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
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"Takeheed, 2keep on the alert; for you do not knowwhen the appointed time will come.
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"3It is like a manaway on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to eachone his task, alsocommanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert.
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"Therefore, 4be on the alert -for you do not knowwhen the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or5when the roostercrows, or6in the morning -
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in case he should comesuddenly and find you 7asleep.
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"What I say to you I say to all, '8Be on the alert!' "