As Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him in private. "Tell us when all this will be," they asked, "and what will happen to show that it is the time for your coming and the end of the age."

"No one knows, however, when that day and hour will come---neither the angels in heaven nor the Son; the Father alone knows.

Remember that all these things will happen before the people now living have all died.

"No one knows, however, when that day or hour will come---neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son; only the Father knows.

Jesus said to them, "The times and occasions are set by my Father's own authority, and it is not for you to know when they will be.

There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another.

There is really no need for me to write you about the help being sent to God's people in Judea.

My dear friends, I was doing my best to write to you about the salvation we share in common, when I felt the need of writing at once to encourage you to fight on for the faith which once and for all God has given to his people.