Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
23 Then if anyone says to you, See, here is Christ! or, There is Christ! – believe it not. 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will do great miracles and wonders, insomuch that if it were possible, the very elect should be deceived. 25 Take heed, I have told you beforehand. 26 So if they say to you, Behold, he is in the desert! go not forth; or, Behold, he is in the secret places! believe it not. 27 For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines to the west, so will the coming of the Son of man be. 28 For wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles resort.
29 Immediately after the tribulations of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall move. 30 And then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven. And then shall all the kindreds of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man come in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his angels with the great voice of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen from the four winds, and from the one end of the world to the other.
32 Learn from a similitude of the fig tree: when its branches are yet tender and its leaves sprung, you know that summer is near. 33 So likewise you, when you see all these things, may be sure that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Truly I say to you that this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall perish, but my words will abide.
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