Mark 13

1As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!”Cross-references: Ezek 7:20 · Ezek 8:6 · Ezek 10:4 · Ezek 10:19 · Ezek 11:22 · Mal 3:1 · +2 more

2Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down.”Cross-references: 1Ki 9:7 · 2Chr 7:20 · Jer 26:18 · Mic 3:12 · Matt 24:2 · Luke 19:41 · +3 more

3As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,Cross-references: Matt 13:10 · Matt 13:36 · Matt 17:1 · Matt 21:1 · Matt 24:3 · Mark 1:16 · +6 more

4“Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?”Cross-references: Dan 12:6 · Dan 12:8 · Matt 24:3 · Luke 21:7 · John 21:21 · Acts 1:6

5Jesus, answering, began to tell them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.Cross-references: Jer 29:8 · Matt 24:4 · Luke 21:8 · 1Cor 15:33 · Eph 5:6 · Col 2:8 · +3 more

6For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and will lead many astray.Cross-references: Jer 14:14 · Jer 23:21 · Matt 24:5 · Matt 24:11 · Matt 24:23 · Mark 13:22 · +4 more

7“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.Cross-references: 2Sam 14:14 · Ps 27:3 · Ps 46:1 · Ps 112:7 · Prov 3:25 · Isa 8:12 · +8 more

8For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.Cross-references: 2Chr 15:6 · Ps 48:6 · Isa 19:2 · Isa 37:3 · Jer 4:31 · Jer 6:24 · +12 more

9“But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.Cross-references: Matt 10:17 · Matt 23:34 · Matt 24:9 · Mark 1:44 · Mark 6:11 · Mark 13:5 · +27 more

10The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.Cross-references: Matt 24:14 · Matt 28:18 · Mark 16:15 · Rom 1:8 · Rom 10:18 · Rom 15:19 · +3 more

11When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.Cross-references: Ex 4:10 · 2Sam 23:2 · Isa 50:4 · Jer 1:6 · Dan 3:16 · Matt 10:17 · +17 more

12“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.Cross-references: Ezek 38:21 · Mic 7:4 · Matt 10:21 · Matt 24:10 · Luke 12:52 · Luke 21:16

13You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.Cross-references: Dan 12:12 · Matt 5:11 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 24:9 · Matt 24:13 · Luke 6:22 · +12 more

14“But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,Cross-references: Lam 1:10 · Ezek 44:9 · Dan 8:13 · Dan 9:27 · Dan 11:31 · Dan 12:11 · +8 more

15and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.Cross-references: Gen 19:15 · Gen 19:22 · Gen 19:26 · Job 2:4 · Prov 6:4 · Prov 22:3 · +6 more

16Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

17But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!Cross-references: Deut 28:56 · Lam 2:19 · Lam 4:3 · Lam 4:10 · Hos 9:14 · Hos 13:16 · +3 more

18Pray that your flight won’t be in the winter.

19For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.Cross-references: Deut 4:32 · Deut 28:59 · Deut 29:22 · Isa 65:12 · Lam 1:12 · Lam 2:13 · +8 more

20Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.Cross-references: Isa 1:9 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 65:8 · Zech 13:8 · Matt 24:22 · Rom 11:5 · +2 more

21Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it.Cross-references: Deut 13:1 · Matt 24:5 · Matt 24:23 · Luke 17:23 · Luke 21:8 · John 5:43

22For false christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.Cross-references: Matt 7:15 · Matt 24:24 · Mark 13:6 · John 4:48 · John 10:27 · 2Thess 2:8 · +6 more

23But you watch. “Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.Cross-references: Isa 44:7 · Matt 7:15 · Mark 13:5 · Mark 13:9 · Mark 13:33 · Luke 21:8 · +4 more

24But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,Cross-references: Isa 13:10 · Isa 24:20 · Jer 4:23 · Jer 4:28 · Ezek 32:7 · Dan 7:10 · +13 more

25the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.Cross-references: Isa 34:4 · Rev 6:13

26Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.Cross-references: Dan 7:9 · Matt 16:17 · Matt 16:27 · Matt 24:30 · Matt 25:31 · Mark 8:38 · +5 more

27Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Deut 30:4 · Isa 65:9 · Zech 2:6 · Matt 12:42 · Matt 13:41 · +20 more

28“Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near;Cross-references: Matt 24:32 · Luke 21:29

29even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.Cross-references: Ezek 7:10 · Ezek 12:25 · Heb 10:25 · James 5:9 · 1Pet 4:17

30Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen.Cross-references: Matt 16:28 · Matt 23:36 · Matt 24:34 · Mark 9:1 · Luke 21:32

31Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.Cross-references: Num 23:19 · Josh 23:14 · Ps 19:7 · Ps 102:25 · Isa 40:8 · Isa 51:6 · +9 more

32“But of that day or that hour no one knows—not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.Cross-references: Matt 24:36 · Matt 25:6 · Matt 25:13 · Matt 25:19 · Mark 13:26 · Acts 1:7 · +4 more

33Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.Cross-references: Matt 24:42 · Matt 25:13 · Matt 26:40 · Mark 13:23 · Mark 13:35 · Mark 14:37 · +12 more

34“It is like a man traveling to another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.Cross-references: Ezek 3:17 · Ezek 33:2 · Matt 16:19 · Matt 24:45 · Matt 25:14 · Luke 12:36 · +11 more

35Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming—whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;Cross-references: Matt 24:42 · Matt 24:44 · Mark 6:48 · Mark 13:33 · Mark 14:30

36lest, coming suddenly, he might find you sleeping.Cross-references: Prov 6:9 · Prov 24:33 · Song 3:1 · Song 5:2 · Isa 56:10 · Matt 24:48 · +8 more

37What I tell you, I tell all: Watch!”Cross-references: Mark 13:33 · Mark 13:35 · Luke 12:41