Jesus teaches about giving
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📚And he looked up, and saw the rich men putting their gifts into the temple treasury. 2 📚And he also saw a certain poor widow putting in it two small copper coins.3 📚And he said, “I tell you the truth: This poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 📚For all these have put money into God’s offerings out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had on which to live”.
Jesus reveals the future
5 📚✭And as some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and donations, he said, 6 📚“As for these things you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. They will all be thrown down”.
7 📚And they asked him, saying, “Teacher, but when will these things be? And what sign will there be when these things are about to take place?”
8 📚✭And he said, “Watch out that you are not deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am Christ’ and, ‘The time draws near.’ Therefore, do not go after them. 9 📚But when you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified; for these things must first take place, but the end is not to come immediately”.
10 📚Then said he to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, 11 📚and there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines, and plagues. And there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
12 📚“But before all these things, they will seize you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and bringing you before kings and rulers for my name’s sake. 13 📚And this will turn out to you as an opportunity to give testimony. 14 📚Therefore, settle it in your hearts not to imagine beforehand what answer you will give. 15 📚For I will give you a mouth to speak and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to contradict or resist.
16 📚“And you will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. And they will put some of you to death, 17 📚and you will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. 18 📚But not a hair of your head will perish. 19 📚In your patient endurance possess your souls.
20 📚✭“And when you see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, then know that its desolation is near. 21 📚Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city go out, and let those who are in the country not enter it. 22 📚For those are the days of vengeance, so that all things which have been written✭ might be fulfilled. 23 📚But woe to those with child and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
24 📚✭“And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led away as captives to all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
25 📚✭“And there will be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon the earth distress among nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, 26 📚men’s hearts fainting in fear and in expectation of what is coming on the earth. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
27 📚“And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 📚✭And when these things begin to take place, then look up and raise your heads, for your redemption✭ is drawing near”.
29 📚And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. 30 📚As soon as they put forth leaves, you see and know for yourselves that summer is now near. 31 📚In the same way, when you see these things take place, know that the kingdom of God✭ is near.
32 📚“Truly I say to you, this generation✭ will not pass away, until everything is fulfilled. 33 📚Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
34 📚✭“So watch yourselves, so that your hearts will not be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day come on you unexpectedly. 35 📚For it will come like a trap on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 📚✭Therefore watch, and pray always, so that you may be counted worthy to escape all those things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of man”.