Gospel of Mark

New Testament

Rainbow Missions, Inc. World English Bible. Rainbow Missions, Inc.; revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. http://ebible.org/bible/web.

Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it.

For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

But you watch. "Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

"Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near;

even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.

Most assuredly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.

"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might sieze him by deception, and kill him.

For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard -- very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.