Watch and Pray

The Widow, Endurance, and Redemption · Luke 21

Story guide: Jesus teaches disciples beside a leafy fig tree on the Mount of Olives with the illuminated temple across the valley. This portrays watch and pray in Luke 21:29-38.

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29And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

30when they already put forth leaves, seeing for yourselves, you know that summer is already near.

31So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

32Truly I say to you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all things happen.

33Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.

34But watch yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day come upon you suddenly

35like a trap. For it will come upon all those dwelling on the face of the whole earth.

36But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.

37And during the days he was teaching in the temple, but at night he would go out and lodge on the mountain called the Mount of Olives.

38And all the people would come early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.

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