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`These things that ye behold -- days will come, in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'
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And they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what [is] the sign when these things may be about to happen?'
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And he said, `See -- ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying -- I am [he], and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;
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and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end [is] not immediately.'
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Then said he to them, `Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,
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great shakings also in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things also, and great signs from heaven there shall be;
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and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;
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and it shall become to you for a testimony.
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`Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,
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for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.
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`And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;