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32 "I can guarantee this truth: This generation will not disappear until all this takes place.
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“Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
33 The earth and the heavens will disappear, but my words will never disappear.
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
34 "Make sure that you don't become drunk, hung over, and worried about life. Then that day could suddenly catch you by surprise
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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 that catches a bird. That day will surprise all people who live on the earth.
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For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth.
36 Be alert at all times. Pray so that you have the power to escape everything that is about to happen and to stand in front of the Son of Man."
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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 During the day Jesus would teach in the temple courtyard. But at night he would go to the Mount of Olives (as it was called) and spend the night there.
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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 of the people would get up early to hear him speak in the temple courtyard.
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and all the people came early in the morning to hear him at the temple.
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