Luke 21:12-24 — Legacy Standard Bible

¹²“But before all these things, ^athey will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you to the synagogues and prisons, ¹bringing you before kings and governors for My name’s sake. ¹³“^aIt will result in ¹an opportunity for your testimony. ¹⁴“^aSo set in your hearts not to prepare beforehand to defend yourselves; ¹⁵for ^aI will give you a mouth and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute. ¹⁶“But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death, ¹⁷and you will be hated by all because of My name. ¹⁸“Yet ^anot a hair of your head will perish. ¹⁹“^aBy your perseverance you will gain your ¹lives.

²⁰“But when you see Jerusalem ^asurrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand. ²¹“Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of ¹the city must leave, and ^athose who are in the countryside must not enter ²the city; ²²because these are ^adays of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled. ²³“Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for ^athere will be great distress upon the ¹land and wrath against this people, ²⁴and they will fall by ^athe edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations, and ^bJerusalem will be ^ctrampled under foot by the Gentiles until ^dthe times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.