28Now of the fig tree learn ye a parable. When the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves are come forth, you know that summer is very near.
29So you also when you shall see these things come to pass, know ye that it is very nigh, even at the doors.
Mark 13 is Jesus’s Olivet Discourse, a prophetic sermon delivered just days before his crucifixion. It begins with a startling prediction of the Temple’s destruction, then moves through a tapestry of future events: wars, persecutions, the abomination of desolation, cosmic signs,
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