And Jesus, answering them, began to say: "Take heed lest anyone deceive you.

But take heed to yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be flogged in the synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them.

Take heed, stay awake and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

"But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

And He said: "Take heed that you not be deceived. For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am [He],' and, 'The time has drawn near.' Therefore do not go after them.

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on guard, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being carried away by the error of the wicked;

Who is like Me? Let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for Me from the time that I made man forever; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.

Hide not yourselves, nor go astray; have you not heard from the beginning, and [have] I [not] told you? You are witnesses if there is a God beside Me.

And now I have told you before it happens, so that whenever it may happen, you may believe.

"These things I have spoken to you, so that you should not be made to stumble.

And these things they will do [to you] because they did not know the Father nor Me.