Matthew 24:19-50

19Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

20Pray that your escape will not happen in winter, or on Shabbat.

21For then there will be great trouble, such as has not happened since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.

22And unless those days were cut short, no one would be delivered. But for the sake of the chosen, those days will be cut short.

23“Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here’s the Messiah,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe it.

24For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and show great signs and wonders so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.

25See, I have told you beforehand.

26“So if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. Or, ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.

27For just as lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man.

28For wherever the carcass is, there the vultures will gather.

29“But immediately after the trouble of those days, ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

30Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the land will mourn, and they will see ‘the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven’ with power and great glory.

31He will send out His angels with a great shofar, and they will gather together His chosen from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

32“Now learn the parable from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near.

33So also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, at the door.

34Amen, I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen.

35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

36But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven nor the Son, except the Father alone.

37“For just as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

38For in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

39And they did not understand until the flood came and swept them all away. So shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

40Then two men will be in the field, one taken and one left.

41Two women will be grinding at the mill, one taken and one left.

42Therefore stay alert; for you do not know what day your Lord is coming.

43But know this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and not let his house be broken into.

44So you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

45“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master put in charge of his household to give them food at the proper time?

46Blessed is that servant whose master finds him so doing when he comes.

47Amen, I tell you, his master will put him in charge of all his possessions.

48But if that wicked servant says in his heart, ‘My master is taking a long time,’

49and he begins to beat his fellow servants, and he eats and drinks with drunkards,

50the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know.