Luke 21

1He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.Cross-references: Josh 6:19 · Josh 6:24 · 1Ki 14:26 · 2Ki 24:13 · 2Chr 36:18 · Neh 13:13 · +4 more

2He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.Cross-references: Mark 12:42

3He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,Cross-references: Ex 35:21 · Mark 12:43 · Mark 14:8 · Luke 4:25 · Luke 9:27 · Luke 12:44 · +5 more

4for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”Cross-references: Luke 8:43 · Luke 15:12 · Acts 2:44 · Acts 4:34

5As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,Cross-references: Matt 24:1 · Mark 13:1 · John 2:20

6“As for these things which you see, the days will come in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down.”Cross-references: 1Ki 9:7 · 2Chr 7:20 · Isa 64:10 · Jer 7:11 · Jer 26:6 · Jer 26:9 · +13 more

7They asked him, “Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?”Cross-references: Dan 12:6 · Dan 12:8 · Matt 24:3 · Matt 24:15 · Mark 13:3 · Mark 13:14 · +5 more

8He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.Cross-references: Jer 29:8 · Matt 3:2 · Matt 4:17 · Matt 24:4 · Matt 24:11 · Matt 24:23 · +16 more

9When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.”Cross-references: Ps 27:1 · Ps 46:1 · Ps 112:7 · Prov 3:25 · Isa 8:12 · Isa 51:12 · +6 more

10Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.Cross-references: 2Chr 15:5 · Isa 19:2 · Hag 2:21 · Zech 14:2 · Zech 14:13 · Mark 13:8 · +4 more

11There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.Cross-references: Matt 24:29 · Luke 21:25

12But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.Cross-references: Matt 10:16 · Matt 22:6 · Matt 23:34 · Matt 24:9 · Mark 13:9 · Luke 11:49 · +22 more

13It will turn out as a testimony for you.Cross-references: Phil 1:12 · Phil 1:28 · 1Thess 3:3 · 2Thess 1:5

14Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,Cross-references: Matt 10:19 · Mark 13:11 · Luke 12:11

15for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · Prov 2:6 · Jer 1:9 · Luke 12:12 · Luke 24:45 · Acts 2:4 · +9 more

16You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.Cross-references: Jer 9:4 · Jer 12:6 · Mic 7:5 · Matt 10:21 · Mark 13:12 · Luke 12:53 · +6 more

17You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.Cross-references: Matt 5:11 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 24:9 · Mark 13:13 · Luke 6:22 · John 7:7 · +10 more

18And not a hair of your head will perish.Cross-references: 1Sam 14:45 · 1Sam 25:29 · 2Sam 14:11 · Matt 10:30 · Luke 12:7 · Acts 27:34

19“By your endurance you will win your lives.Cross-references: Ps 27:13 · Ps 37:7 · Ps 40:1 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 24:13 · Luke 8:15 · +16 more

20“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.Cross-references: Dan 9:27 · Matt 24:15 · Mark 13:14 · Luke 19:43 · Luke 21:7

21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.Cross-references: Gen 19:17 · Gen 19:26 · Ex 9:20 · Num 16:26 · Prov 22:3 · Jer 6:1 · +6 more

22For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:19 · Deut 32:34 · Deut 32:43 · Ps 69:22 · +16 more

23Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.Cross-references: Deut 28:56 · Lam 4:10 · Matt 21:41 · Matt 21:44 · Matt 24:19 · Mark 13:17 · +9 more

24They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.Cross-references: Deut 28:64 · Isa 5:5 · Isa 63:18 · Isa 66:12 · Isa 66:19 · Lam 1:15 · +6 more

25“There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;Cross-references: Ps 46:3 · Ps 93:3 · Isa 5:30 · Isa 13:10 · Isa 13:13 · Isa 22:4 · +17 more

26men fainting for fear and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · Deut 28:32 · Deut 28:65 · Matt 24:29 · Mark 13:25 · Heb 10:26 · +1 more

27Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.Cross-references: Dan 7:13 · Matt 16:27 · Matt 24:30 · Matt 25:31 · Matt 26:64 · Mark 13:26 · +3 more

28But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”Cross-references: Ps 98:5 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 25:8 · Isa 60:1 · Luke 18:7 · Rom 8:19 · +3 more

29He told them a parable. “See the fig tree and all the trees.Cross-references: Matt 24:32 · Mark 13:28

30When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.Cross-references: Luke 12:57

31Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near.Cross-references: Matt 3:2 · Matt 16:1 · Luke 12:51 · Heb 10:37 · James 5:9 · 1Pet 4:7

32Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished.Cross-references: Matt 16:28 · Matt 23:36 · Matt 24:34 · Mark 13:30 · Luke 11:50

33Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.Cross-references: Ps 102:26 · Isa 40:8 · Isa 51:6 · Matt 5:18 · Matt 24:35 · Mark 13:31 · +3 more

34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.Cross-references: Lev 10:9 · Deut 29:19 · 1Sam 25:36 · Ps 35:8 · Prov 21:4 · Isa 28:1 · +25 more

35For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.Cross-references: Gen 7:4 · Ps 11:6 · Eccl 9:12 · Isa 24:17 · Jer 48:43 · Luke 17:37 · +2 more

36Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”Cross-references: Job 27:10 · Ps 1:5 · Mal 3:2 · Matt 24:42 · Matt 25:13 · Matt 26:41 · +17 more

37Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.Cross-references: Zech 14:4 · Matt 21:1 · Matt 21:17 · Matt 26:30 · Matt 26:55 · Mark 11:12 · +5 more

38All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.Cross-references: John 8:1