马太福音 24:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

這一切不過是痛苦的開始。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
这 都 是 灾 难 （ 灾 难 ： 原 文 是 生 产 之 难 ） 的 起 头 。

Contextual Overview

⁴ Jesus answered, "Be careful that no one fools you. ⁵ Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,' and they will fool many people. ⁶ You will hear about wars and stories of wars that are coming, but don't be afraid. These things must happen before the end comes. ⁷ Nations will fight against other nations; kingdoms will fight against other kingdoms. There will be times when there is no food for people to eat, and there will be earthquakes in different places. ⁸ These things are like the first pains when something new is about to be born. ⁹ "Then people will arrest you, hand you over to be hurt, and kill you. They will hate you because you believe in me. ¹⁰ At that time, many will lose their faith, and they will turn against each other and hate each other. ¹¹ Many false prophets will come and cause many people to believe lies. ¹² There will be more and more evil in the world, so most people will stop showing their love for each other. ¹³ But those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved.

Bible Verse Review
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Leviticus 26:18-29, Deuteronomy 28:59, Isaiah 9:12, Isaiah 9:17, Isaiah 9:21, Isaiah 10:4, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 1 Peter 4:17, 1 Peter 4:18

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:65 - failing of eyes Deuteronomy 32:23 - heap mischiefs Psalms 59:15 - for meat Jeremiah 38:2 - He Matthew 24:29 - Immediately Mark 13:8 - these

Cross-References

Genesis 24:4
Instead, go back to my country, to the land of my relatives, and get a wife for my son Isaac."

Genesis 24:6
Abraham said to him, "No! Don't take my son back there.

Genesis 24:17
The servant ran to her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar."

Genesis 24:20
So she quickly poured all the water from her jar into the drinking trough for the camels. Then she kept running to the well until she had given all the camels enough to drink.

Numbers 30:5
But if her father hears about the promise or pledge and does not allow it, then the promise or pledge does not have to be kept. Her father would not allow it, so the Lord will free her from her promise.

Numbers 30:8
But if her husband hears about it and does not allow it, he cancels her pledge or the careless promise she made. The Lord will free her from keeping it.

Joshua 9:20
This is what we must do. We must let them live. Otherwise, God's anger will be against us for breaking the oath we swore to them.

John 8:32
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

Acts 7:2
Stephen answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to Abraham, our ancestor, in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All these are the beginning of sorrows,.... They were only a prelude unto them, and forerunners of them; they were only some foretastes of what would be, and were far from being the worst that should be endured. These were but light, in comparison of what befell the Jews, in their dreadful destruction. The word here used, signifies the sorrows and pains of a woman in travail. The Jews expect great sorrows and distresses in the times of the Messiah, and use a word to express them by, which answers to this, and call them, חבלי המשיח, "the sorrows of the Messiah"; חבלי, they say r, signifies the sorrows of a woman in travail; and the Syriac version uses the same word here. These they represent to be very great, and express much concern to be delivered from them. They s ask,

"what shall a man do, to be delivered from "the sorrows of the Messiah?" He must employ himself in the law, and in liberality.''

And again t,

"he that observes the three meals on the sabbath day, shall be delivered from three punishments; from "the sorrows of the Messiah", from the judgment of hell, and from Gog and Magog.''

But alas there was no other way of escaping them, but by faith in the true Messiah, Jesus; and it was for their disbelief and rejection of him, that these came upon them.

r Gloss. in T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 118. 2. s T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 98. 2. t T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 118. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The beginning of sorrows - Far heavier calamities are yet to come before the end.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 24:8. All these are the beginning of sorrows. — ωδινων, travailing pains. The whole land of Judea is represented under the notion of a woman in grievous travail; but our Lord intimates, that all that had already been mentioned were only the first pangs and throes, and nothing in comparison of that hard and death-bringing labour, which should afterwards take place.

From the calamities of the nation in general, our Lord passes to those of the Christians; and, indeed, the sufferings of his followers were often occasioned by the judgments sent upon the land, as the poor Christians were charged with being the cause of these national calamities, and were cruelly persecuted on that account.