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What a terrible time it will be for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

For there will be worse trouble at that time than there has ever been from the very beginning , when God created the universe, until now; and there will be nothing like it again .

Indeed, if God had not limited the duration of the trouble, no one would survive; but for the sake of the elect, those whom he has chosen, he has limited it.

There will appear false Messiahs and false prophets performing signs and wonders for the purpose, if possible, of misleading the chosen.

Stay alert! Be on your guard! For you do not know when the time will come.

So stay alert! for you don't know when the owner of the house will come,

for they said, "Not during the festival, or the people will riot."

It could have been sold for a year's wages and given to the poor!" And they scolded her.

But he said, "Let her be. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me.

For you will always have the poor with you; and whenever you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.

What she could do, she did do — in advance she poured perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.

They were pleased to hear this and promised to give him money. And he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Yeshua.

On the first day for matzah, when they slaughtered the lamb for Pesach, Yeshua's talmidim asked him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare your Seder?"

and whichever house he enters, tell him that the Rabbi says, ‘Where is the guest room for me, where I am to eat the Pesach meal with my talmidim?'

For the Son of Man will die, just as the Tanakh says he will; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him had he never been born!"

Yeshua said to them, "You will all lose faith in me, for the Tanakh says, ‘I will strike the shepherd dead, and the sheep will be scattered.'

"Abba!" (that is, "Dear Father!") "All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me! Still, not what I want, but what you want."

The third time, he came and said to them, "For now, go on sleeping, take your rest. . . .There, that's enough! The time has come! Look! The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners!

For many people gave false evidence against him, but their testimonies didn't agree.

When the crowd came up and began asking Pilate to do for them what he usually did,