Thematic Bible
Luke 21:1 (show verse)
AND as he looked up, he saw some casting their gifts into the treasury who were rich.
Luke 21:2 (show verse)
And he observed also a certain widow, miserably poor, put in there two mites.
Luke 21:3 (show verse)
And he said, Of a truth I tell you that this poor widow hath put in more than all they:
Luke 21:4 (show verse)
for all they have of their superfluity cast into the oblations for God: but she out of her indigence hath cast in all the substance which she possessed.
Luke 21:5 (show verse)
And some of them talking of the temple, how adorned it was with the beautiful stone-work and the dedicated offerings, he said,
Luke 21:6 (show verse)
As for these things which ye are gazing upon, the days will come, in which one stone will not be left upon another, that shall not be utterly thrown down.
Luke 21:7 (show verse)
And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what is the sign, when these things are ready to come to pass?
Luke 21:8 (show verse)
Then he said, Take heed that ye be not deluded: for many will come in my name, saying, I am he; and the period approaches: go not therefore after them.
Luke 21:9 (show verse)
But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the conclusion is not immediately.
Luke 21:10 (show verse)
Then saith he unto them, Nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
Luke 21:11 (show verse)
and great earthquakes shall be in different places, and famines, and pestilences; and in the heaven shall be frightful appearances, and mighty signs.
Luke 21:12 (show verse)
But before all these things, they will lay hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and to prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
Luke 21:13 (show verse)
And it shall afford you an opportunity to bear your testimony.
Luke 21:14 (show verse)
Therefore rest satisfied in your hearts, not to premeditate what apology to make:
Luke 21:15 (show verse)
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall be utterly unable to contradict or resist.
Luke 21:16 (show verse)
But ye shall be betrayed even by parents, and brethren, and relations, and friends; and some of you they shall put to death.
Luke 21:17 (show verse)
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
Luke 21:18 (show verse)
Though a hair of your head shall in nowise perish.
Luke 21:19 (show verse)
In your patience possess ye your souls.
Luke 21:20 (show verse)
But when ye see Jerusalem, encircled with armies, then know that the desolation of it approaches.
Luke 21:21 (show verse)
Then let those who are in Judea fly unto the mountains; and let those who are in the midst of her get far away: and they who are in the countries, let them not enter into her.
Luke 21:22 (show verse)
For these are the days of vengeance, when all things which are written shall be fulfilled.
Luke 21:23 (show verse)
But wo to those who are big with child, and have infants at their breasts, in those days! for there shall be great distress on the earth, and wrath upon this people.
Luke 21:24 (show verse)
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden under foot of the Gentiles, until the times appointed for the Gentiles shall come to their period.
Luke 21:25 (show verse)
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:26 (show verse)
men terrified to death with fear, and expectation of the calamities coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Luke 21:27 (show verse)
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory.
Luke 21:28 (show verse)
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Luke 21:29 (show verse)
And he spake a parable unto them, Behold the fig-tree, and all the trees,
Luke 21:30 (show verse)
when they now put forth, as soon as ye see it ye know in yourselves that the summer is now near:
Luke 21:31 (show verse)
so ye also, when ye see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand.
Luke 21:32 (show verse)
Verily I say unto you, That this generation shall in nowise pass away, until all these things come to pass.
Luke 21:33 (show verse)
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall never pass away.
Luke 21:34 (show verse)
But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts should be overloaded with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the anxious cares of life, and that day should come upon you unawares.
Luke 21:35 (show verse)
For as a snare shall it come upon all that are settled on the face of the whole earth.
Luke 21:36 (show verse)
Watch therefore, praying at every proper opportunity, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are ready to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Luke 21:37 (show verse)
And during the day he continued teaching in the temple; but at night he went out, and lodged in the mountain called the mount of Olives.
Luke 21:38 (show verse)
And all the people came to him early in the morning at the temple, to hear him.