Luke 21:12-24

New American Standard Bible

¹² “But before all these things, ^(A)they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, turning you over to the synagogues and prisons, ^[a]bringing you before kings and governors on account of My name. ^13 (B)It will lead to ^[b]an opportunity for your testimony. ^14 (C)So ^[c]make up your minds not to prepare beforehand to defend yourselves; ¹⁵ for ^(D)I will provide you ^[d]eloquence and wisdom which none of your adversaries will be able to oppose or refute. ¹⁶ But you will be betrayed even by parents, brothers and sisters, other relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death, ¹⁷ and you will be hated by all people because of My name. ¹⁸ And yet ^(E)not a hair of your head will perish. ^19 (F)By your endurance you will gain your ^[e]lives.

²⁰ “But when you see Jerusalem ^(G)surrounded by armies, then ^[f]recognize that her desolation is near. ²¹ Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are inside ^[g]the city must leave, and ^(H)those who are in the country must not enter ^[h]the city; ²² because these are ^(I)days of punishment, so that all things which have been written will be fulfilled. ²³ Woe to those women who are pregnant, and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for ^(J)there will be great distress upon the ^[i]land, and wrath to this people; ²⁴ and they will fall by ^(K)the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and ^(L)Jerusalem will be ^(M)trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until ^(N)the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.