28“Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches bud and its leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near.
29In the same way, when you see all these things taking place, you can know that his return is very near, right at the door.
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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