Matthew:24

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* And Iesus went out , and departed from the Temple , and his disciples came to him , to shewe him the building of the Temple . * * And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues , his disciples came vnto him apart , saying , Tell vs when these things shall be , and what signe shalbe of thy coming , and of the ende of the world . * * For many shall come in my name , saying , I am Christ , and shall deceiue many . * And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars : see that ye be not troubled : for all [these things ] must come to pass , but the (note :)That is , when those things are fulfilled , yet the end will not come .(:note ) end is not yet . * For nation shall rise against nation , and kingdom against kingdom : and there shall be famines , and pestilences , and earthquakes , in (note :)Everywhere .(:note ) divers places . * All these [are ] the beginning of (note :)Literally , «of great torments », just like women in childbirth .(:note ) sorrows . * Then shal they deliuer you vp to be afflicted , and shall kill you , and ye shall be hated of all nations for my Names sake . * And then shall many be offended , and shal betray one another , and shall hate one another . * And many false prophets shall arise , &amp ; shall deceiue many . * And because iniquitie shalbe increased , the loue of many shalbe colde . * * And this (note :)Joyful tidings of the kingdom of heaven .(:note ) gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the Through all that part of the world that people live in . world for a witness unto all nations ; and then shall the end come . * * Then let them which be in Iudea , flee into the mountaines . * Let him which is on the house top , not come downe to fetch any thing out of his house . * Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his (note :)This is a sign of how great the fear will be .(:note ) clothes . * And woe shalbe to them that are with childe , and to them that giue sucke in those dayes . * But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter , neither on the (note :)It was not lawful to take a journey on the sabbath day ; Josephus , book 13 .(:note ) sabbath day : * For then shall be great tribulation , such as was not from the beginning of the worlde to this time , nor shalbe . * And except (note :)Those things which befell the people of the Jews in the thirty-four years , when the whole land was wasted , and at length the city of Jerusalem was taken , and both it and their temple destroyed , are mixed with those things which will come to pass before the last coming of the Lord .(:note ) those days should be shortened , there should no The whole nation would utterly be destroyed : and this word «flesh » is a figurative word for «man », as the Hebrews used to say . flesh be saved : but for the elect 's sake those days shall be shortened . * Then if any shall say vnto you , Loe , here is Christ , or there , beleeue it not . * For there shall arise false Christs , and false prophets , and (note :)Will openly set forth great signs for men to behold .(:note ) shall shew great signs and wonders ; insomuch that , if [it were ] possible , they shall deceive the very elect . * Beholde , I haue tolde you before . * Wherefore if they shall say vnto you , Beholde , he is in the desert , goe not forth : Beholde , he is in the secret places , beleeue it not . * For as the lightning commeth out of the East , and is seene into the West , so shall also the coming of the Sonne of man be . * * * And then shall appear the (note :)The exceeding glory and majesty , which will bear witness that Christ the Lord of heaven and earth draws near to judge the world .(:note ) sign of the Son of man in heaven : and then shall all the All nations , and he alludes to the dispersion which we read of in (Genesis 10-11 ), or to the dividing of the people of Israel . tribes of the earth They will be in such sorrow , that they will strike themselves : and it is transferred to the mourning . mourn , and they shall see the Son of man Sitting upon the clouds , as he was taken up into heaven . coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory . * And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet , and they shall gather together his elect from the (note :)From the four corners of the world .(:note ) four winds , from one end of heaven to the other . * * So likewise ye , when ye see all these things , know that the kingdom of God is nere , eue at ye doores . * Verily I say unto you , This (note :)This age : the word «generation » or «age » is here being used for the men of this age .(:note ) generation shall not pass , till all these things be fulfilled . * * * But as the dayes of Noe were , so likewise shall the coming of the Sonne of man be . * For as in the days that were before the flood they were (note :)The word which the evangelist uses expresses the matter more fully then ours does : for it is a word which is used of brute beasts : and his meaning is that in those days men will pay attention to their appetites just like brute beasts : for otherwise there is nothing wrong with eating and drinking .(:note ) eating and drinking , marrying and giving in marriage , until the day that Noe entered into the ark , * And knewe nothing , till the flood came , and tooke them all away , so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be . * * * * Of this be sure , that if the good man of the house knewe at what watch the thiefe would come , he woulde surely watch , and not suffer his house to be digged through . * Therefore be ye also ready : for in the houre that ye thinke not , will the Sonne of man come . * Who then is a faithfull seruaunt and wise , whom his master hath made ruler ouer his household , to giue them meate in season ? * Blessed is that seruant , whom his master when he commeth , shall finde so doing . * Verely I say vnto you , he shall make him ruler ouer all his goods . * But if that euil seruant shal say in his heart , My master doth deferre his comming , * And begin to smite his fellowes , &amp ; to eate , and to drinke with the drunken , * That seruaunts master will come in a day , when he looketh not for him , and in an houre that he is not ware of , * And shall (note :)That is , from the rest , or will cut him into two pieces , which was a most cruel kind of punishment : with which , as Justin Martyr witnesses , Isaiah the Prophet was executed by the Jews : the same kind of punishment we read of in ( 1Sa_15:33 ) and ( Dan_3:29 ).(:note ) cut him asunder , and appoint [him ] his portion with the hypocrites : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth .

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