And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’

Even all the hairs on your head are numbered.

When the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take extra olive oil with them.

But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps.

Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.

Later, the other virgins came too, saying, ‘Lord, lord! Let us in!’

How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?”

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades! For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.

Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’ or to say, ‘Stand up and walk’?

Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.

Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.

And aren’t all his sisters here with us? Where did he get all this?”

For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

‘No,’ they replied. ‘There won’t be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.