28and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.`
29And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the trees,
30when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;
31so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;
32verily I say to you -- This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;
33the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.
34`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,