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This will be your chance to tell the Good News.
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Make up your minds ahead of time not to worry about how you will defend yourselves,
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because I will give you such words and wisdom that none of your enemies will be able to refute or contradict what you say.
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You will be handed over by your parents, your brothers, your relatives, and your friends; and some of you will be put to death.
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Everyone will hate you because of me.
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But not a single hair from your heads will be lost.
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Stand firm, and you will save yourselves.
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"When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that it will soon be destroyed.
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Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills; those who are in the city must leave, and those who are out in the country must not go into the city.
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For those will be "The Days of Punishment,' to make come true all that the Scriptures say.
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How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies! Terrible distress will come upon this land, and God's punishment will fall on this people.