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"Make up your minds, however, not to prepare a defence beforehand,
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for I will give you utterance and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to withstand or reply to.
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You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, friends; and some of you they will put to death.
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You will be the objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name;
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and yet not a hair of your heads shall perish.
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By your patient endurance you will purchase your lives.
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"But when you see Jerusalem with armies encamping round her on every side, then be certain that her overthrow is close at hand.
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Then let those who shall be in Judaea escape to the hills; let those who are in the city leave it, and those who are in the country not enter in.
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For those are the days of vengeance and of fulfilling all that is written.
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"Alas for the women who at that time are with child or who have infants; for there will be great distress in the land, and anger towards this People.
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They will fall by the sword, or be carried off into slavery among all the Gentiles. And Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles, till the appointed times of the Gentiles have expired.