He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.

For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.

who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions – and in the age to come, eternal life.

They were even more astonished and said to one another, “Then who can be saved?”

Jesus called them and said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them.

For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These are but the beginning of birth pains.