For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

“Then they will hand you over to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

And all the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, just as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are only the beginning of birth pains.

And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

for he loves our nation, and it was he who built us our synagogue.”

For all these things are what the nations of the world eagerly seek; and your Father knows that you need these things.

Things to Come

Then He continued by saying to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,

and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

The Return of Christ

“There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

And they began to bring charges against Him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

If we let Him go on like this, all the people will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take over both our place and our nation.”

nor are you taking into account that it is in your best interest that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish instead.”

Now he did not say this on his own, but as he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;

and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests handed You over to me; what have You done?”

Now there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said, ‘Why were the nations insolent, And the peoples plotting in vain?

‘And whatever nation to which they are enslaved I Myself will judge,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve Me in this place.’

It was he who shrewdly took advantage of our nation and mistreated our fathers in order that they would abandon their infants in the Nile, so that they would not survive.

Our fathers in turn received it, and they also brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations that God drove out from our fathers, until the time of David.