Be Alert

³⁴ “But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly ³⁵ like a trap. For it will come upon all who reside on the face of the whole earth. ³⁶ But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

³⁷ So throughout the days he was teaching in the temple courts,^[a] and throughout the nights he was going out and^[b] spending the night on the hill that is called the Mount of Olives. ³⁸ And all the people were getting up very early in the morning to come^[c] to him in the temple courts^[d] to listen to him.