Hi everyone. Welcome back to daily gospel exegesis. Our goal here is to help you prepare for the gospel

reading you'll hear at today's mass. So we're giving you an exegesis of the literal sense

of the scripture. So we're helping you understand what the gospel text means in its original

context so that when you go to Mass, your heart and your mind will be more prepared to hear

what the priest might have to say or the person doing the Mass will have to say about this particular

reading.

So today we get to a really interesting text, and in many ways quite a difficult text that's

often been misinterpreted. So it's a longer text, Luke chapter 21 versus 5 to 19.

When some were talking about the temple, remarking how it was adorned with fine stonework

and votive offerings, Jesus said, all these things you are staring at now, the time will come

when not a single stone will be left on another.

Everything will be destroyed.

And they put to him this question.

Master, they said, when will this happen and what sign will there be that this is about to take place?

Take care not to be deceived, he said, because many will come using my name and saying,

I am he, and the time is near at hand.

Refuse to join them. And when you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened, for this is something that must happen, but the end is not so soon. Then he said to them,

Nation will fight against nation and kingdom against kingdom.

There will be great earthquakes and plagues and famines here and there.

There will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

But before all this happens, men will seize you and persecute you.

They will hand you over to the synagogues and to imprisonment, and bring you before kings

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