And if you salute only your near relatives, what praise is due to you? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

When they were come near Jerusalem and had arrived at Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of the disciples on in front,

"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 you also, when you see all these signs, may be sure that He is near--at your very door.

Jesus however came near and said to them, "All power in Heaven and over the earth has been given to me.