1    ^noteAnd Iesvs being gone out of the temple, vvent. And his disciples came to shevv him the buildings of the t&ebar;ple.

2   And he ansvvering said to th&ebar;, Do you see al these things? Amen I say to you, there shal09Q0540 not be left here a stone vpon a stone that shal not be destroied.

3    ^noteAnd vvhen he vvas sitting vpon Mount-oliuet, the disciples came to him secretly, saying: Tel vs, vvhen shal these things be? and vvhat shal be09Q0541 the signe of thy comming, and of the consummation of the vvorld?

4   And Iesvs ansvvering, said to them, Bevvare that no man09Q0542 seduce you: ^note

5   for many shal come in my name saying,09Q0543 I am Christ: and they shal seduce many.

6   For you shal heare of vvarres, & bruites of vvarres. See that ye be not troubled. for these things must be done: but the end is not yet.

7   for nation shal rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shal be pestilences, and famines, and earth-quakes in places,

8   and al these things are the beginnings of sorovves. &cross4;

9   Then ^note shal they deliuer you into tribulation, and shal kil you: and you shal be odious to al nations for my names sake.

10   And then many shal be scandalized: and they shal deliuer vp one an other: and they shal hate one an other.

11   And many ^note false-prophets shal rise: and shal seduce many.

12   And because 09Q0544 iniquitie shal abound: the charitie of many shal vvaxe cold.

13   But he that shal perseuêre to the end, he shal be saued. &cross4;

14   And this Gospel of the kingdom09Q0545 shal be preached in the vvhole vvorld, for a testimonie to al nations, and then shal come the consummation.

15    ^noteTherfore vvhen you shal see09Q0546 the abomination of desolation, ^note vvhich vvas spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, standing in the holy place (he that readeth, let him vnderstand)

16   then they that are in Ievvrie, let them flee to the mountaines:

17   and he that is on the house-toppe, let him not come dovvne

to take any thing out of his house:

18   and he that is in the field, let him not goe backe to take his coate.

19   And vvo to th&ebar; that are vvith childe, and that giue sucke in those dayes.

20   But pray that your flight be not in the vvinter or on the Sabboth.

21   For there shal be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the vvorld vntil novv, neither shal be.

22   And vnles those daies had been shortened, no flesh should be saued: but for the elect the daies09Q0547 shal be shortened.

23   Then if any man shal say vnto you, Loe ^note here is Christ, or there: do not beleeue him.

24   For there shal rise false-Christes and false-Prophets, and shal shevv09Q0548 great signes and vvonders, so that the elect also (if it be possible) may be induced into errour.

25   Loe I haue foretold you.

26   If therfore they shal say vnto you, Behold he is in the desert: goe ye not out: behold09Q0549 in the closets, beleeue it not.

27   For as lightening c&obar;meth out of the east, and appeareth euen into the vvest, so shal also the aduent of the sonne of man be.

28   Wheresoeuer the body is, thither shal the egles also be gathered together.

29   And09Q0550 immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes ^note the sonne shal be darkened, and the moone shal not giue her light, and the starres shal fal from heauen, and the powers of heauen shal be moued:

30   and then shal appeare ^note the signe of the Sonne of man in heauen: and then shal al tribes of the earth bevvaile: and they shal see the Sonne of man comming in the cloudes of heauen vvith much povver and maiestie.

31   And he shal send his Angels vvith a trumpet, and a great voyce: and they shal gather together his elect from the foure vvindes, from the furthest partes of heauen euen to the endes thereof.

32   And of the figtree learne a parable: When novv the bough thereof is tender, and the leaues come forth, you knovv that sommer is nigh.

33   So you also, vvhen you shal see these things, knovv ye that it is nigh euen at the doores.

34   Amen I say to you, that this generation shal not passe, til al these things be done.

35   Heauen and earth shal passe, but my vvordes shal not passe. &cross4;

36   But of that day and houre no body knovveth, neither the Angels of heauen, but the Father alone.

37   And as ^note in the dayes of Noe, so shal also the comming of the Sonne of man be.

38   For as they vvere in the dayes before the floud, eating and drinking, marying and giuing to mariage, euen vnto that day in vvhich Noe entred into the arke,

39   and knevve not til

the floud came, and tooke them al: so also shal the c&obar;ming of the Sonne of man be.

40   Then two shal be in the field: one shal be taken, and one shal be left.

41   tvvo vvomen grinding in the mill: one shal be taken, and one shal be left.

42   Watch therfore because you knovv not vvhat houre your Lord vvil come. ^note

43   But this knovv ye, that ^note if the good man of the house did knovv vvhat houre the theefe vvould come, he vvould surely vvatch, and vvould not suffer his house to be broken vp.

44   Therfore be you also ready, because at vvhat houre you knovv not, the Sonne of man vvil come.

45   Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and vvise seruant, vvhom his lord hath appointed ouer his familie, to giue them meate in season?

46   Blessed is that seruant, vvhom vvhen his lord c&obar;meth, he shal finde so doing.

47   Amen I say to you, that ouer al his goods shal he appoint him. &cross4;

48   But if that naughtie seruant shal say in his hart, My lord is long a comming:

49   and shal beginne to strike his felovv-seruants, and eateth, and drinketh vvith drunkards:

50   the lord of that seruant shal come in a day that he hopeth not, and an houre that he knovveth not,

51   and shal deuide him, and appoint his portion vvith the hypocrites: there shal be vveeping and gnashing of teeth.

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