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34-35 “Watch out! Don’t let my sudden coming catch you unawares; don’t let me find you living in careless ease, carousing and drinking, and occupied with the problems of this life, like all the rest of the world. 36 Keep a constant watch. And pray that if possible you may arrive in my presence without having to experience these horrors.”[a]

37-38 Every day Jesus went to the Temple to teach, and the crowds began gathering early in the morning to hear him. And each evening he returned to spend the night on the Mount of Olives.

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  1. Luke 21:36 pray . . . you may arrive in my presence without having to experience these horrors, or “pray for strength to pass safely through these coming horrors.”

35 For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray(A) that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

37 Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple,(B) and each evening he went out(C) to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives,(D)

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