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Mark 12:37  l  872

“ ‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand

until I put your enemies
under your feet.” ’  a
37 Da­vid him­self ­calls him ‘Lord.’ How then
can he be his son?”
The ­large ­crowd lis­tened to him with de­
light.
Warning Against the Teachers
of the Law
38 As he ­taught, ­Jesus said, “Watch out
for the teach­ers of the law. They like to
walk ­around in flow­ing ­robes and be greet­
ed with re­spect in the mar­ket­plac­es, 39 and
have the most im­por­tant ­seats in the syn­
a­gogues and the plac­es of hon­or at ban­
quets. 40 They de­vour wid­ows’ hous­es and
for a show make ­lengthy ­prayers. ­These
men will be pun­ished most se­vere­ly.”
The Widow’s Offering
41 ­
Jesus sat down op­
po­
site the ­
place
where the of­fer­ings were put and ­watched
the c ­ rowd put­ting t ­ heir mon­ey into the
tem­ple trea­sury. Many rich peo­ple ­threw in
­large ­amounts. 42 But a poor wid­ow came
and put in two very s ­ mall cop­per c ­ oins,
worth only a few ­cents.
43 Call­ing his dis­ci­ples to him, ­Jesus said,
“Tru­ly I tell you, this poor wid­ow has put
more into the trea­sury than all the oth­ers.
44 They all gave out of t ­ heir ­wealth; but she,
out of her pov­er­ty, put in ev­ery­thing — ​all
she had to live on.”
The Destruction of the Temple and
Signs of the End Times
13
As ­Jesus was leav­ing the tem­ple, one
of his dis­ci­ples said to him, “Look,
Teach­er! What mas­sive ­stones! What mag­
nif­i­cent build­ings!”
2 “Do you see all t ­ hese g
­ reat build­ings?”
re­plied ­Jesus. “Not one ­stone here will be
left on an­oth­er; ev­ery one will be t ­ hrown
down.”
3 As ­Jesus was sit­ting on the ­Mount of
Ol­ives op­po­site the tem­ple, Pe­ter, ­James,
John and An­drew ­asked him pri­vate­ly,
4 “Tell us, when will ­these ­things hap­pen?
And what will be the sign that they are all
about to be ful­filled?”
5 ­Jesus said to them: “Watch out that no
one de­ceives you. 6 Many will come in my
name, claim­ing, ‘I am he,’ and will de­ceive
many. 7 When you hear of wars and ru­mors
of wars, do not be a
­ larmed. Such t ­ hings
must hap­pen, but the end is ­still to come.
8 Na­tion will rise ­against na­tion, and king­
dom ­against king­dom. ­There will be earth­
quakes in var­i­ous plac­es, and fam­ines.
These are the be­gin­ning of ­birth pains.
9 “You must be on your ­guard. You will
be hand­ed over to the lo­cal coun­cils and
flogged in the syn­a­gogues. On ac­count of
me you will ­stand be­fore gov­er­nors and
kings as wit­ness­es to them. 10 And the gos­
pel must f ­ irst be p
­ reached to all na­tions.
11 When­ev­er you are ar­rest­ed and ­brought
to tri­al, do not wor­ry be­fore­hand ­about
what to say. Just say what­ev­er is giv­en you
at the time, for it is not you speak­ing, but
the Holy Spir­it.
12 “Broth­er will be­tray broth­er to ­death,
and a fa­ther his ­child. Chil­dren will re­bel
against t ­ heir par­ents and have them put to
death. 13 Ev­ery­one will hate you be­cause of
me, but the one who ­stands firm to the end
will be saved.
14 “When you see ‘the abom­i­na­tion that
caus­es des­o­la­tion’  b stand­ing ­where it  c does
not be­long  — ​let the read­er un­der­stand  — ​
then let ­those who are in Ju­dea flee to the
moun­tains. 15 Let no one on the house­top
go down or en­ter the ­house to take any­
thing out. 16 Let no one in the ­field go back
to get t ­ heir c ­ loak. 17 How dread­ful it will
be in ­those days for preg­nant wom­en and
nurs­ing moth­ers! 18 Pray that this will not
take ­place in win­ter, 19 be­cause ­those will
be days of dis­tress un­equaled from the be­
gin­ning, when God cre­at­ed the ­world, un­til
now — ​and nev­er to be ­equaled ­again.
20 “If the Lord had not cut s ­ hort t ­ hose
days, no one ­would sur­vive. But for the
sake of the e
­ lect, whom he has cho­sen, he
has short­ened them. 21 At that time if any­
one says to you, ‘Look, here is the Mes­si­
ah!’ or, ‘Look, ­there he is!’ do not be­lieve it.
22 For ­false mes­si­ahs and ­false proph­ets will
ap­pear and per­form ­signs and won­ders to
de­ceive, if pos­si­ble, even the ­elect. 23 So be
on your ­guard; I have told you ev­ery­thing
ahead of time.
24 “But in t ­ hose days, fol­low­ing that dis­
tress,

“ ‘the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
25 the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be
shaken.’  d
26 “At that time peo­ple will see the Son
of Man com­ing in c ­ louds with g
­ reat ­pow­er
a  36 Psalm
110:1    b  14 Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11   
13:10; 34:4   
c  14 Or he    d  25 Isaiah