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.

The Lord decided not to do this. “It will not happen,” the Lord said.

These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.

to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

So the Lord said, “Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.

This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

So also you, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, right at the door.

When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said, “Lord, should we use our swords?”

And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

Everyone shares the same fate – the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.

until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened.

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “Certainly this man was innocent!”

The Lord decided not to do this. The sovereign Lord said, “This will not happen either.”

Then they told what had happened on the road, and how they recognized him when he broke the bread.

Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.

It happened just as he had said to us – Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”

For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.

So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.