So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don’t let anyone look down on you.

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever officiated at the altar.

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

Therefore write what you saw, what is, and what will be after these things.

The first woe has passed, but two woes are still coming after these things!

After these things I looked, and the temple (the tent of the testimony) was opened in heaven,

For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?

Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I do these things:

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.

All their neighbors were filled with fear, and throughout the entire hill country of Judea all these things were talked about.

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him.

As he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.

“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!”

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

And when you hear of wars and rebellions, do not be afraid. For these things must happen first, but the end will not come at once.”

And all those who knew Jesus stood at a distance, and the women who had followed him from Galilee saw these things.