\subsection{Luke 21}
\subsubsection{The Widow's Offering}
\VS{1} But looking up he saw those throwing into the treasury the gifts of their 
riches. 
\VS{2} But he saw [a] certain needy widow throw there two 
leptas\footnote{lepta = 1/8 cent}, 
\VS{3} and he said: Truly do I say to you 
that this poor widow has thrown [in] more than all. 
\VS{4} For all these out of 
their abundance threw into the gifts, but this [woman] out of her lack threw in all 
the living she had. 

\subsubsection{The Signs of the End of the Age}
\VS{5} And when some were saying concerning the temple, that it was adorned 
with ornaments and beautiful stones, he said: 
\VS{6} All these [things] that you 
behold, [the] days will come in which there will not be left stone which will not 
be thrown down. 
\VS{7} But they asked him saying: Teacher, when therefore 
will these [things] be? And what [will be] the sign when these [things] are [about] to come to pass? 
\VS{8} And he said: Be seeing that you be not deceived, for many will come upon my 
name saying: I am [he], and, The opportune-time\fnKairos{} has drawn nigh\footnote{or ``is 
come''} Do not go after them. 
\VS{9} But when you hear wars and 
disorders\footnote{or ``insurrections''}, be not frightened, for it is 
necessary these [things] come to pass first, but not immediately [is] the 
end\footnote{or ``completion''}. 

\subsubsection{Persecution of Disciples}
\VS{10} Then he was saying to them: Nation 
will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, 
\VS{11} and there will 
be great earthquakes and in various places pestilences and famines, and [a] 
fearful [thing] will be [a] great sign from heaven. 
\VS{12} But before these [things] they 
will lay their hands on you and persecute [you], delivering you up to the 
synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors on account 
of my name. 
\VS{13} It will prove to be to [a] witness for you. 
\VS{14} Place 
therefore in your hearts not to prepare to defend yourself. 
\VS{15} For I 
will give to you mouth and wisdom, which all those opposing will be unable 
to resist or to contradict. 
\VS{16} But you will be delivered up by parents 
and brothers and relatives and friends, and [some] will be killed among you, 
\VS{17} and you will be hated by all because of my name. 
\VS{18} And [a] hair 
on your head they will \negd{not} destroy. 
\VS{19} In your endurance will you acquire your psyche-lives\fnPsyche{}. 

\subsubsection{The Desolation of Jerusalem}
\VS{20} But when you see Jerusalem circled by 
armies, then will you know that her desolation has drawn nigh. 
\VS{21} Then 
let\fnImperative{} those in the country not enter into her, 
\VS{22} for these are [the] days of vengeance for all having been written to be 
fulfilled. 
\VS{23} Woe to those with child and to those giving suck in those 
days, for it will be [a] great calamity upon the earth and wrath to this 
people, 
\VS{24} and they will fall by mouth of sword, and will be led 
captive into every nation, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the nations, 
until the season\fnKairos{} of the nations be fulfilled. 

\subsubsection{The Arrival of the Son of Man}
\VS{25} And there will 
be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth dismay of the 
nations in perplexity, sounds of [the] sea and of tossing, 
\VS{26} when men die 
from fear and of expectation of the [things] coming upon the inhabited earth; for 
the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 
\VS{27} And then they will see the 
son of man coming in [a] cloud with power and great glory. 
\VS{28} But when 
these [things] begin to come to pass, stand erect and lift up your heads, because 
your release\footnote{or ``redemption''} is at hand. 

\subsubsection{The Parable of the Fig Tree}
\VS{29} And he spoke to 
them [a] parable, Behold the fig and all the trees, 
\VS{30} when they already 
put out [leaves], seeing from yourselves you know that summer is already near. 
\VS{31} Likewise you also, when you see these [things] come to pass, you know that 
the kingdom of God is near. 
\VS{32} Truly I say to you that 
this\footnote{i.e. the aforementioned} generation shall \negd{not} 
pass away until all come to pass. 
\VS{33} Heaven and earth may pass away, 
but my words will \negd{not} pass away. 

\subsubsection{Be Ready!}
\VS{34} But be attending to 
yourselves lest your hearts be burdened down in dissipation\footnote{or 
``carousing''} and drunkenness and [the] cares of daily life, and that day 
suddenly be present 
\VS{35} as [a] snare, for it will rush in upon all those 
sitting on the face of all the earth. 
\VS{36} So be watching in every opportune-time\fnKairos{} asking in order 
that you prevail to flee all these [things] [about] to come 
to pass, and be stood before the son of man.

\VS{37} Now he was days teaching in the temple, but nights coming out he 
spent the night on the mount called of Olives. 
\VS{38} And all the people 
rose early to him in the temple to be hearing from him.
