uard: lo! I have told you all things: (24)but in
those days, after that distressing season, the sun shall be darkened,
and the moon shall not emit her light; (25)and the stars of the heaven
will be falling, and the powers that are in heaven will be shaken.
(26)And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds of
heaven with vast power and glory. (27)And then shall he send his
angels, and shall gather to him his elect from the four winds, from the
extremity of the earth to the utmost bound of heaven. (28)Now learn
from the fig-tree, a parable; When her branch is now become tender, and
putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh; (29)so also you,
when ye see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at
the doors. (30)Verily I say unto you, That this generation shall not
pass away, until all these things are fulfilled. (31)Heaven and earth
shall pass away; but my words shall never pass away.

(32)But of that day and hour knoweth no man, nor the angels which are
in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father. (33)Take ye heed, watch, and
pray; for ye know not when the time is. (34)As a man going abroad, when
he left his abode, and gave his servants authority, and to each his
work, commanded also the porter to watch. (35)Watch ye therefore; for
ye know not at what time the master of the house cometh, at evening, or
midnight, or cock-crowing, or in the morning: (36)lest coming suddenly
he find you asleep. (37)Now what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.

CHAP. XIV.

NOW the passover and the feast of unleavened bread were but two days
distant; and the chief priests, and the scribes, sought how they might
seize him by craft, and kill him. (2)But they said, Not on the feast
day, lest there be a commotion among the people. (3)And when he was at
Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman
came, having an alabaster vase of ointment, of genuine spikenard, of
vast value: and breaking the vase, she let it flow down upon his head.
(4)And there were some who felt indignation within themselves, saying,
Wherefore is this waste of the ointment made? (5)For it might have been
sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And
they bitterly murmured against her. (6)Then said Jesus, Let her alone;
why give ye her uneasiness? she hath performed a laudable act towards
me. (7)For the poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye may do
them good: but me ye have not always. (8)Wh