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He looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like walking trees."

Then he put his hands on the blind man's eyes again. He peered intently, and his eyesight was restored, so that he could see everything distinctly.

Yes!" he went on, "I tell you that there are some people standing here who will not experience death until they see the Kingdom of God come in a powerful way!"

"What do you want me to do for you?" asked Yeshua. The blind man said to him, "Rabbi, let me be able to see again."

Spotting in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came up to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it wasn't fig season.

"You see all these great buildings?" Yeshua said to him, "They will be totally destroyed — not a single stone will be left standing!"

"Now when you see the abomination that causes devastation standing where it ought not to be" (let the reader understand the allusion), "that will be the time for those in Y'hudah to escape to the hills.

"At that time, if anyone says to you, ‘Look! Here's the Messiah!' or, ‘See, there he is!' — don't believe him!

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with tremendous power and glory.

In the same way, when you see all these things happening, you are to know that the time is near, right at the door.

"I AM," answered Yeshua. "Moreover, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of HaG'vurah and coming on the clouds of heaven. "

Then some began spitting at him; and after blindfolding him, they started pounding him with their fists and saying to him, "Let's see you prophesy!" And as the guards took him, they beat him too.

and, "So he's the Messiah, is he? The King of Isra'el? Let him come down now from the stake! If we see that, then we'll believe him!" Even the men nailed up with him insulted him.

One ran and soaked a sponge in vinegar , put it on a stick and gave it to him to drink . "Wait!" he said, "Let's see if Eliyahu will come and take him down."

But go and tell his talmidim, especially Kefa, that he is going to the Galil ahead of you. You will see him there, just as he told you."

No sooner had the angels left them and gone back into heaven than the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go over to Beit-Lechem and see this thing that has happened, that Adonai has told us about."

Then all humanity will see God's deliverance.'"

The Torah-teachers and P'rushim watched Yeshua carefully to see if he would heal on Shabbat, so that they could accuse him of something.

But he knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Come up and stand where we can see you!" He got up and stood there.

So why do you see the splinter in your brother's eye, but not notice the log in your own eye?