³¹ so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;

² and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven,

² and he answering said to them, `Evening having come, ye say, Fair weather, for the heaven is red,

³ and at morning, Foul weather to-day, for the heaven is red -- gloomy; hypocrites, the face of the heavens indeed ye do know to discern, but the signs of the times ye are not able!

⁴ `A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

⁵¹ `Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;

⁵² for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided -- three against two, and two against three;

⁵³ a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

⁵⁴ And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;

⁵⁵ and when -- a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is;

⁵⁶ hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of `it'?

⁵⁷ `And why, also, of yourselves, judge ye not what is righteous?

³⁷ for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

⁹ murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

⁷ And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,