“Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.

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

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

The Son of Man Will Judge the Nations

“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.

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

Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows.

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

“for he loves our nation, and has built us a synagogue.”

For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things.

Then He said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

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

The Coming of the Son of Man

“And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring;

And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.”

nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”

Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me. What have You done?”

The Crowd’s Response

And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.

who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: ‘Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things?

‘And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’