¹² “I still have many things to say to you, ^(A)but you cannot bear them now.

¹³ However, when He, ^(A)the Spirit of truth, has come, ^(B)He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

^2 (A)They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming ^(B)that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

³ And ^(A)these things they will do ^[a]to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.

⁴ But these things I have told you, that when ^[a]the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them.

“And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

Jesus Warns and Comforts His Disciples

16 “These things I have spoken to you, that you ^(A)should not be made to stumble.

Jesus Warns of Offenses^(A)

17 Then He said to the disciples, ^(B)“It is impossible that no ^[a]offenses should come, but ^(C)woe to him through whom they do come!

² It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should ^[a]offend one of these little ones.

²³ For ^(A)assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.

Second Trumpet: The Seas Struck

⁸ Then the second angel sounded: ^(A)And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, ^(B)and a third of the sea ^(C)became blood.