²⁹ Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.^(A)

³⁰ Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and ^[a]beat their breasts and lament in anguish, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory [in brilliancy and splendor].^(B)

³⁴ Truly I tell you, this generation (^[a]the whole multitude of people living at the same time, ^[b]in a definite, ^[c]given period) will not pass away till all these things ^[d]taken together take place.