"Guard your hearts. Don't let them get heavy with overindulgence and drunkenness and the anxieties of ordinary life — or that day will close on you like a trap, every last person on earth.

Stay alert. Pray at every turn — for the strength to escape what is coming, and to stand before the Son of ManlinkContextto stand before the Son of ManThis is the goal of the entire discourse. The widow stood before the treasury (v.1). The persecuted stand before kings and governors (v.12). Now the faithful stand before the Son of Man — not cowering, not fleeing, but standing firm (σταθῆναι, from ἵστημι). The posture is confidence in the presence of the liberator, echoing v.28's "stand tall, lift your heads." The chapter that began with a woman giving everything ends with a community standing in the presence of everything.."

During the days, he taught in the Temple. At night he went out and stayed on the hill called the Mount of Olives. And the people — all of them — would rise early every morning and come to the Temple to listen.