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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Matthew 24 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/24.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/24-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Matthew 24</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/23.htm" title="Matthew 23">◄</a> Matthew 24 <a href="../matthew/25.htm" title="Matthew 25">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/matthew/24.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="red">“Do you see all these things?”</span> he asked. <span class="red">“Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jesus answered: <span class="red">“Watch out that no one deceives you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">All these are the beginning of birth pains.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">“So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11">a</a></sup></span> spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">“If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">See, I have told you ahead of time.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">“So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">“Immediately after the distress of those days</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="red">“ ‘the sun will be darkened,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">and the moon will not give its light;</span></p><p class="line1"><span class="red">the stars will fall from the sky,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Isaiah 13:10; 34:4">b</a></sup></span> </span></p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">“Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the tribes of the land">c</a></sup></span> will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="See Daniel 7:13-14.">d</a></sup></span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="red">Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or he">e</a></sup></span> is near, right at the door.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="red">Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="red">Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">The Day and Hour Unknown</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="red">“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts do not have nor the Son.">f</a></sup></span> but only the Father.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="red">As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="red">For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="red">and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="red">Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="red">Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="red">“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="red">But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="red">So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="red">“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="red">It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="red">Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span><span class="red">But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span><span class="red">and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span><span class="red">The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span><span class="red">He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">29</span> <span class="footnotebot">Isaiah 13:10; 34:4</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">30</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>the tribes of the land</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">30</span> <span class="footnotebot">See Daniel 7:13-14.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">33</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>he</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">36</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts do not have <i>nor the Son.</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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