Luke 21:9-19

9 And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end is not immediately.

10 Then he said to them, Nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

11 there shall be both great earthquakes in different places, and famines and pestilences; and there shall be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

12 But before all these things they shall lay their hands upon you and persecute you, delivering [you] up to synagogues and prisons, bringing [you] before kings and governors on account of my name;

13 but it shall turn out to you for a testimony.

14 Settle therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand [your] defence,

15 for *I* will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your opposers shall not be able to reply to or resist.

16 But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death [some] from among you,

17 and ye will be hated of all for my name's sake.

18 And a hair of your head shall in no wise perish.

19 By your patient endurance gain your souls.

Footnotes

• [a] A strengthened negative.
• [b] Or 'possess your souls.' In the first sense, that of the text, it is the same thought as Matt. 24.13; Luke 17.33; Matt. 16.25; Luke 9.24, &c.: see Mark 13.13. For the second, the Greek certainly means 'possess,' as 'owners,' Acts 4.34. see 1Thess. 4.4, which evidently does not mean 'obtain a wife,' as alleged. There is the idea in the word of 'having by getting:' see Matt. 10.9; Luke 18.12. The idea is, 'they would have Messiah's deliverance,' and it is so worded as to allow that it would be a better deliverance to the killed, though some would win life here below.