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34 “Take care that your hearts aren’t dulled by drinking parties, drunkenness, and the anxieties of day-to-day life. Don’t let that day fall upon you unexpectedly, 35 like a trap. It will come upon everyone who lives on the face of the whole earth. 36  Stay alert at all times, praying that you are strong enough to escape everything that is about to happen and to stand before the Human One.”[a]

37 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, but he spent each night on the Mount of Olives. 38 All the people rose early in the morning to hear him in the temple area.

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  1. Luke 21:36 Or Son of Man

34  But de watch prosechō yourselves heautou lest mēpote your hymeis minds kardia be dulled bareō · ho by en dissipation kraipalē and kai drunkenness methē and kai the anxieties merimna of this life biōtikos, and kai that ekeinos day hēmera close ephistēmi down upon epi you hymeis suddenly aiphnidios, · ho 35 like hōs a trap pagis. For gar it will come epeiserchomai upon epi all pas those ho who live kathēmai on epi the face prosōpon of the ho whole pas earth . 36 Be alert agrypneō · de at en all pas times kairos, praying deomai that hina you may have strength katischuō to escape ekpheugō all pas these houtos things that ho will mellō take ginomai place , and kai to stand histēmi before emprosthen the ho Son hyios of ho Man anthrōpos.”

37 During the ho day hēmera he was eimi · de in en the ho temple hieron teaching didaskō, but de at ho night nyx he went exerchomai out and stayed aulizomai on eis the ho hill oros · ho called kaleō “The Mount of Olives elaia.” 38 And kai all pas the ho people laos came orthrizō to pros him autos in en the ho temple hieron at dawn to listen akouō to him autos.

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