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Matthew 24:8

All these events are the beginning of labor pains.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus Continued;   Persecution;   The Topic Concordance - Affliction;   Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;   End of the World;   Endurance;   Evangelism;   Hate;   Persecution;   Redemption;   Salvation;   Tribulation;   World;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ, the Prophet;   Jerusalem;   Prophets;   Second Coming of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Prophecy;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Day of the lord;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ;   Prophet, Christ as;   War, Holy War;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jews;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Matthew, the Gospel of;   Olivet Discourse, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jesus Christ;   Jude, Epistle of;   Kingdom of God;   Olives, Mount of;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Day of Judgment;   Earthquake ;   Groaning;   Progress;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Judah, the Kingdom of;   Matthew, Gospel by;   45 Pain Travail Labour Weariness;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Jerusalem;   Matthew;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eschatology of the New Testament;   Travail;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eschatology;  

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
All these are the beginning of sorrowes.
King James Version
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
English Standard Version
All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.
New American Standard Bible
"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.
New Century Version
These things are like the first pains when something new is about to be born.
Amplified Bible
"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish and the time of unprecedented trouble].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
Legacy Standard Bible
But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.
Berean Standard Bible
All these are the beginning of birth pains.
Contemporary English Version
But this is just the beginning of troubles.
Complete Jewish Bible
all this is but the beginning of the ‘birth-pains.'
Darby Translation
But all these [are the] beginning of throes.
Easy-to-Read Version
These things are only the beginning of troubles, like the first pains of a woman giving birth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All these are but ye beginning of sorowes.
George Lamsa Translation
But all these things are just the beginning of travail.
Good News Translation
All these things are like the first pains of childbirth.
Lexham English Bible
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
Literal Translation
But all these are a beginning of throes.
American Standard Version
But all these things are the beginning of travail.
Bible in Basic English
But all these things are the first of the troubles.
Hebrew Names Version
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
International Standard Version
But all these things are only the beginning of the birth pains."
Etheridge Translation
But these are all the beginning of sorrows.
Murdock Translation
But all these are only the commencement of sorrows.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All these are the begynnynges of sorowes.
English Revised Version
But all these things are the beginning of travail.
World English Bible
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Weymouth's New Testament
but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and alle these ben bigynnyngis of sorewes.
Update Bible Version
But all these things are the beginning of travail.
Webster's Bible Translation
All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.
New English Translation
All these things are the beginning of birth pains.
New King James Version
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
New Living Translation
But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.
New Life Bible
These things are the beginning of sorrows and pains.
New Revised Standard
all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, all these things, are a beginning of birth-pangs.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Revised Standard Version
all this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
All these are the beginninge of sorowes.
Young's Literal Translation
and all these [are] the beginning of sorrows;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All these are the begynnynge of sorowes.
Mace New Testament (1729)
yet all this is but the beginning of sorrow.
Simplified Cowboy Version
But this is just the birthin' of the problems that will follow.

Contextual Overview

4Jesus replied to them: “Watch out that no one deceives 5For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many. 6You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, because these things must take place, but the end is not yet. 7For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines 8All these events are the beginning of labor pains.9“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name. 10Then many will fall away, betray one another, and hate one another. 11Many false prophets 12Because lawlessness 13But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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
but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Genesis 24:6
Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.
Genesis 24:17
Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”
Genesis 24:20
She quickly emptied her jug into the trough and hurried to the well again to draw water. She drew water for all his camels
Numbers 30:5
But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, none of her vows and none of the obligations she put herself under are binding. The Lord will release her because her father has prohibited her.
Numbers 30:8
But if her husband prohibits her when he hears about it, he will cancel her vow that is binding or the rash commitment she herself made, and the Lord will release her.
Joshua 9:20
This is how we will treat them: we will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”
John 8:32
You will know the truth,
Acts 7:2
“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled 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.


 
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