13. This will provide you with an opportunity to testify.
14. Make up your minds not to prepare your defense in advance.
15. I’ll give you words and wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to counter or contradict.
16. You will be betrayed by your parents, brothers and sisters, relatives, and friends. They will execute some of you.
17. Everyone will hate you because of my name.
18. Still, not a hair on your heads will be lost.
19. By holding fast, you will gain your lives.
20. “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that its destruction is close at hand.
21. At that time, those in Judea must flee to the mountains, those in the city must escape, and those in the countryside must not enter the city.
22. These are the days of punishment, when everything written will find its fulfillment.
23. How terrible it will be at that time for women who are pregnant or for women who are nursing their children. There will be great agony on the earth and angry judgment on this people.