The Gospel according to S. Luke. Chapter 21

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CHAP. XXI.

1 Christ commendeth the poore widow. 5 Hee foretelleth the destruction of the Temple, and of the citie Hierusalem: 25 The signes also which shall be before the last day. 34 He exhorteth them to be watchfull.

¹And he looked vp, and saw the rich men casting their giftes into the treasurie.¹

²And hee saw also a certaine poore widow, casting in thither two mites.²

³And he said, Of a truth, I say vnto you, that this poore widow hath cast in more then they all.

⁴For all these haue of their abundance cast in vnto the offerings of God, but shee of her penurie hath cast in all the liuing that she had.

⁵¶ And as some spake of the Temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones, and gifts, he said,⁵

⁶As for these things which yee behold, the dayes will come, in the which there shal not be left one stone vpon another, that shal not be throwen downe.

⁷And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what signe wil there be, when these things shall come to passe?

⁸And he said, Take heede that yee be not deceiued: for many shall come in my Name, saying, I am Christ, and the time draweth neere: goe yee not therefore after them.

⁹But when ye shall heare of wars, and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to passe, but the end is not by and by.

¹⁰Then said he vnto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdome against kingdome:¹⁰

¹¹And great earthquakes shall be in diuers places, and famines, and pestilences: and fearefull sights and great signes shall there be from heauen.

¹²But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the Synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.

¹³And it shall turne to you for a testimony.

¹⁴Settle it therfore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answere.¹⁴

¹⁵For I will giue you a mouth and wisedome, which all your aduersaries shall not be able to gainsay, nor resist.

¹⁶And yee shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren, and kinsefolkes and friends, and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

¹⁷And ye shalbe hated of all men for my Names sake.

¹⁸But there shall not a haire of your head perish.¹⁸

¹⁹In your patience possesse ye your soules.

²⁰And when yee shall see Hierusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.²⁰

²¹Then let them which are in Iudea, flee to the mountaines, and let them which are in the midst of it, depart out, and let not them that are in the countreys, enter thereinto.

²²For these be the dayes of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

²³But woe vnto them that are with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes, for there shalbe great distresse in the land, and wrath vpon this people.

²⁴And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall bee led away captiue into all nations, and Hierusalem shall be troden downe of the Gentiles, vntill the times of the Gentiles bee fulfilled.

²⁵¶ And there shalbe signes in the Sunne, and in the Moone, and in the Starres, and vpon the earth distresse of nations, with perplexity, the Sea and the waues roaring,²⁵

²⁶Mens hearts failing them for feare, and for looking after those things which are comming on the earth; For the powers of heauen shall be shaken.

²⁷And then shall they see the sonne of man comming in a cloud with power and great glory.

²⁸And when these things begin to come to passe, then looke vp, and lift vp your heads, for your redemptiou draweth nigh.

²⁹And he spake to them a parable, Behold the figge tree, and all the trees,

³⁰When they now shoot foorth, yee see and know of your owne selues, that summer is now nigh at hand.

³¹So likewise yee, when yee see these things come to passe, know ye that the kingdome of God is nigh at hand.

³²Uerily I say vnto you, this generation shall not passe away, till all be fulfilled.

³³Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my words shall not passe away.

³⁴¶ And take heed to your selues, least at any time your hearts be ouercharged with surfetting, and drunkennesse, and cares of this life, and so that day come vpon you vnawares.

³⁵For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

³⁶Watch ye therefore, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe, and to stand before the sonne of man.

³⁷And in the day time he was teaching in the Temple, and at night hee went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Oliues.

³⁸And all the people came earely in the morning to him in the Temple, for to heare him.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Luke Chapter 21

¹ Marke 12. 41.
² See Marke 12.42.
⁵ Mat.24.1.
¹⁰ Matt.24. 7.
¹⁴ Matth.10. 19
¹⁸ Matth.10. 30.
²⁰ Matth.24. 15.
²⁵ Matth.24. 29.

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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