“But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

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

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.

“I am,” said Jesus, “and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]