Mark 13:5-15

5 So Jesus began to say to them: "Take care that no one misleads you.

6 Many will come assuming my name and saying, `I am He;' and they will mislead many.

7 But when you hear of wars and rumours of wars, do not be alarmed: come they must, but the End is not yet.

8 For nation will rise in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.

9 "You yourselves must be on your guard. They will deliver you up to Sanhedrins; you will be brought into synagogues and cruelly beaten; and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to be witnesses to them for me.

10 But the proclamation of the Good News must be carried to all the Gentiles before the End comes.

11 When however they are marching you along under arrest, do not be anxious beforehand about what you are to say, but speak what is given you when the time comes; for it will not be you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

12 "Brother will betray brother to be killed, and fathers will betray children; and children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

13 You will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name, but those who stand firm to the End will be saved.

14 "As soon, however, as you see the Abomination of Desolation standing where he ought not" --let the reader observe these words--"then let those in Judaea escape to the hills;

15 let him who is on the roof not come down and enter the house to fetch anything out of it;