28 “So learn a lesson from fig trees—whenever the branches green up and start sprouting leaves and then everyone knows that summer is close. 29 So too whenever you see all these things happening, you know that the end of this current world is close. 30 I can assure you that the generation of people who see these things won’t die off before these latter things happen. 31 The sky and the planet might collapse, but my teachings will never become irrelevant.