“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

“So when you see the abomination of desolation – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

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

So then, if someone says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him.

“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.

“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

‘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.

For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

When Jesus learned of this, he said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a good service for me.

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