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and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'
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And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the trees,
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when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;
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so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;
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verily I say to you -- This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;
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the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.
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`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,
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for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,
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watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'
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And he was during the days in the temple teaching, and during the nights, going forth, he was lodging at the mount called of Olives;
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and all the people were coming early unto him in the temple to hear him.