"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you wash clean the outside of the cup or dish, while within they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Blind Pharisee, first wash clean the inside of the cup or dish, and then the outside will be clean also.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

And you will fill up the measure that your fathers filled.

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?

Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

See, your house will now be left to you desolate!

For I say to you, you will not see Me again [ministering to you publicly] until you say, ‘Blessed [to be celebrated with praise] is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

While Jesus was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, and said, “Tell us, when will this [destruction of the temple] take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end (completion, consummation) of the age?”

For many will come in My name [misusing it, and appropriating the strength of the name which belongs to Me], saying, ‘I am the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed),’ and they will mislead many.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another;

Many false prophets will appear and mislead many.

Because lawlessness is increased, the love of most people will grow cold.

But the one who endures and bears up [under suffering] to the end will be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

consider it well) let those who are then in Judea, flee into the mountains,

But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,

For at that time there will be a great tribulation (pressure, distress, oppression), such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will [again].

And if those days [of tribulation] had not been cut short, no human life would be saved; but for the sake of the elect (God’s chosen ones) those days will be shortened.

For false Christs and false prophets will appear and they will provide great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect (God’s chosen ones).

You see, I have told you [all this] ahead of time.

For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming [in glory] of the Son of Man [everyone will see Him clearly].

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not provide its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet and they will gather together His elect (God’s chosen ones) from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

"Now learn from the fig-tree the lesson it teaches. As soon as its branches have now become soft and it is bursting into leaf, you all know that summer is near.

So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Heaven and earth [as now known] will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father,

For the coming of the Son of Man (the Messiah) will be just like the days of Noah.

And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

At that time two men will be in the field; one will be taken [for judgment] and one will be left.

Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken [for judgment] and one will be left.

Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.

But you should know this: if the owner of a house had known when a thief was coming, he would have been watching so as not to allow his house to be broken into.

For this [reason] you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come].

"Who then will be the faithful, thoughtful slave whom his master put in charge of his household, to give the members of it their supplies at the proper time?

Blessed is that [faithful] servant when his master returns and finds him doing so.

Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

But if that slave, with evil intent, should think to himself, 'My master will not be back very soon,'

and should begin to beat his fellow servants, while he eats and drinks with drunkards;

the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the groom.

They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

But the wise answered, saying, Peradventure there will not be enough for us and you: go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

"But he replied, "I tell all of you with certainty, I don't know you!'

Therefore, be on the alert [be prepared and ready], for you do not know the day nor the hour [when the Son of Man will come].

For it will be as when a man going abroad called his own servants, and intrusted to them his property;

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Well then, you should have handed my money to the bankers and I would have got my capital with interest when I came back.

“For to everyone who has [and values his blessings and gifts from God, and has used them wisely], more will be given, and [he will be richly supplied so that] he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have [because he has ignored or disregarded his blessings and gifts from God], even what he does have will be taken away.

And throw out the worthless servant into the outer darkness; in that place [of grief and torment] there will be weeping [over sorrow and pain] and grinding of teeth [over distress and anger].

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

and he will set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left.

“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father [you favored of God, appointed to eternal salvation], inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

naked, and ye clothed me; I was ill, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me.

Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?

When did we see Thee homeless, and give Thee a welcome? or ill-clad, and clothe Thee?

and when saw we thee ill, or in prison, and came to thee?

The King will answer and say to them, ‘I assure you and most solemnly say to you, to the extent that you did it for one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it for Me.’

“Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Leave Me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels (demons);

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye did not clothe me; ill, and in prison, and ye did not visit me.

Then shall they also answer saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or ill, or in prison, and have not ministered to thee?

Then He will reply to them, ‘I assure you and most solemnly say to you, to the extent that you did not do it for one of the least of these [my followers], you did not do it for Me.’

Then these [unbelieving people] will go away into eternal (unending) punishment, but those who are righteous and in right standing with God [will go, by His remarkable grace] into eternal (unending) life.”

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,

“You know that the Passover is coming in two days, and the Son of Man is to be betrayed and handed over for crucifixion.”

But they said, “It must not be during the festival (Passover), otherwise there might be a riot among the people.”

Now [while] Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,

a woman came up to him holding an alabaster flask of very expensive perfumed oil, and poured [it] out on his head [while he] was reclining at table.

But when the disciples saw it they were indignant and angry, saying, “Why all this waste [of money]?

This ointment might have been well sold, and given to the poor."

For you always have the poor with you; but you will not always have Me.

By pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she has prepared Me for burial.

Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.

And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where will you that we prepare for you to eat the passover?

And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.

When the evening was come, he sat down with the twelve. And as they ate he said, Verily I say to you, One of you will betray me.