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29 Jesus told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.
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He told them this parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.
30 When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near.
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When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near.
31 In the same way, when you see these things happening, you know that God's kingdom is near.
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Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
32 I assure you that this generation won't pass away until everything has happened.
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“Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
34 "Take care that your hearts aren't dulled by drinking parties, drunkenness, and the anxieties of day-to-day life. Don't let that day fall upon you unexpectedly,
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“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.
35 like a trap. It will come upon everyone who lives on the face of the whole earth.
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For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth.
36 Stay alert at all times, praying that you are strong enough to escape everything that is about to happen and to stand before the Human One."
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Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
37 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, but he spent each night on the Mount of Olives.
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Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives,
38 All the people rose early in the morning to hear him in the temple area.
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and all the people came early in the morning to hear him at the temple.
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