Luke 21:18-28

18 "Yet ¹not a hair of your head will perish.

19 "²By your endurance you will gain your lives.

20 "But when you see Jerusalem ³surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.

21 "Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of the city must leave, and ⁴those who are in the country must not enter the city;

22 because these are ⁵days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled.

23 "Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for ⁶there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people;

24 and they will fall by ⁷the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and ⁸Jerusalem will be ⁹trampled under foot by the Gentiles until ¹⁰the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

The Return of Christ

25 "There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

26 men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

27 "¹¹Then they will see ¹²THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD with power and great glory.

28 "But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because ¹³your redemption is drawing near."

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 10:30; Luke 12:7
• 2. Matthew 10:22; Matthew 24:13; Romans 2:7; Romans 5:3; Hebrews 10:36; James 1:3; 2 Peter 1:6
• 3. Luke 19:43
• 4. Luke 17:31
• 5. Isaiah 63:4; Daniel 9:24-27; Hosea 9:7
• 6. Daniel 8:19; 1 Corinthians 7:26
• 7. Genesis 34:26; Exodus 17:13; Hebrews 11:34
• 8. Isaiah 63:18; Daniel 8:13
• 9. Revelation 11:2
• 10. Romans 11:25
• 11. Matthew 16:27; Matthew 24:30; Matthew 26:64; Mark 13:26
• 12. Daniel 7:13; Revelation 1:7
• 13. Luke 18:7

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "souls"
• [b]. Lit "know"
• [c]. Lit "her"
• [d]. Lit "her"
• [e]. Or "earth"
• [f]. Or "attesting miracles"
• [g]. Lit "inhabited earth"
• [h]. Or "heaven"