Matthew 24:6

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You 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.

King James Version (1611)
And yee shall heare of warres, and rumors of warres: See that yee be not troubled: for all these things must come to passe, but the end is not yet.

King James Version
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

English Standard Version
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

New American Standard Bible
"And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.

New Century Version
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.

Amplified Bible
"You will continually hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end [of the age].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.

Berean Standard Bible
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.

Contemporary English Version
You will soon hear about wars and threats of wars, but don't be afraid. These things will have to happen first, but that isn't the end.

Complete Jewish Bible
You will hear the noise of wars nearby and the news of wars far off; see to it that you don't become frightened. Such things must happen, but the end is yet to come.

Darby Translation
But ye will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not disturbed; for all [these things] must take place, but it is not yet the end.

Easy-to-Read Version
You will hear about wars that are being fought. And you will hear stories about other wars beginning. But don't be afraid. These things must happen before the end comes.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And ye shall heare of warres, and rumours of warres: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to passe, but the end is not yet.

George Lamsa Translation
You are bound to hear of revolutions and rumors of wars; look out and do not be disturbed; for all of these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Good News Translation
You are going to hear the noise of battles close by and the news of battles far away; but do not be troubled. Such things must happen, but they do not mean that the end has come.

Lexham English Bible
And you are going to hear about wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is not yet.

Literal Translation
But you are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See, do not be terrified. For all things must take place, but the end is not yet.

American Standard Version
And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.

Bible in Basic English
And news will come to you of wars and talk of wars: do not be troubled, for these things have to be; but it is still not the end.

Hebrew Names Version
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

International Standard Version
You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you are not alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet.

Etheridge Translation
But it will be for you to hear [fn] wars and the noise of battles; (yet) see that you be not perturbed; for all these will take place, but not yet is the end.

Murdock Translation
And ye are to hear of conflicts, and the rumor of battles. See that ye be not disquieted: for all these things must come; but the consummation is not yet.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shal heare of warres, & rumours of warres: See that you be not troubled. For all [these thynges] must come to passe, but the ende is not yet.

English Revised Version
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.

World English Bible
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And ye will hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled; for all these things must come to pass: but the end is not yet.

Weymouth's New Testament
And before long you will hear of wars and rumours of wars. Do not be alarmed, for such things must be; but the End is not yet.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For ye schulen here batels, and opyniouns of batels; se ye that ye be not disturblid; for it byhoueth these thingis to be don, but not yit is the ende.

Update Bible Version
And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not troubled: for [these things] must surely come to pass; but the end is not yet.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye will hear of wars, and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

New English Translation
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Make sure that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is still to come.

New King James Version
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all [fn] these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

New Living Translation
And you will hear of wars and threats of wars, but don't panic. Yes, these things must take place, but the end won't follow immediately.

New Life Bible
You will hear of wars and lots of talk about wars, but do not be afraid. These things must happen, but it is not the end yet.

New Revised Standard
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moreover ye will be sure to be hearing of wars, and rumours of wars: Mind! be not alarmed, for it must needs happen, - but, not yet, is, the end;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not yet.

Revised Standard Version
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Ye shall heare of warres and of the fame of warres: but se yt ye be not troubled. For all these thinges must come to passe but the ende is not yet.

Young's Literal Translation
and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all [these] to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shal heare of warres, and of ye noyse of warres: take hede, and be not ye troubled. All these thinges must first come to passe, but the ende is not yet.

Mace New Testament (1729)
ye shall hear likewise of wars, and rumours of wars: take care not to be disturb'd: for these things must happen, but the end of the Jewish age is not yet.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"You will hear about wars and battles, but don't fret, this isn't the end. These things must happen, but it ain't the end.

Contextual Overview

⁴Jesus said, "Watch out for doomsday deceivers. Many leaders are going to show up with forged identities, claiming, ‘I am Christ, the Messiah.' They will deceive a lot of people. When reports come in of wars and rumored wars, keep your head and don't panic. This is routine history; this is no sign of the end. Nation will fight nation and ruler fight ruler, over and over. Famines and earthquakes will occur in various places. This is nothing compared to what is coming. ⁹"They are going to throw you to the wolves and kill you, everyone hating you because you carry my name. And then, going from bad to worse, it will be dog-eat-dog, everyone at each other's throat, everyone hating each other. ¹¹"In the confusion, lying preachers will come forward and deceive a lot of people. For many others, the overwhelming spread of evil will do them in—nothing left of their love but a mound of ashes. ¹³"Staying with it—that's what God requires. Stay with it to the end. You won't be sorry, and you'll be saved. All during this time, the good news—the Message of the kingdom—will be preached all over the world, a witness staked out in every country. And then the end will come. ¹⁵"But be ready to run for it when you see the monster of desecration set up in the Temple sanctuary. The prophet Daniel described this. If you've read Daniel, you'll know what I'm talking about. If you're living in Judea at the time, run for the hills; if you're working in the yard, don't return to the house to get anything; if you're out in the field, don't go back and get your coat. Pregnant and nursing mothers will have it especially hard. Hope and pray this won't happen during the winter or on a Sabbath. ²¹"This is going to be trouble on a scale beyond what the world has ever seen, or will see again. If these days of trouble were left to run their course, nobody would make it. But on account of God's chosen people, the trouble will be cut short. ²³"If anyone tries to flag you down, calling out, ‘Here's the Messiah!' or points, ‘There he is!' don't fall for it. Fake Messiahs and lying preachers are going to pop up everywhere. Their impressive credentials and dazzling performances will pull the wool over the eyes of even those who ought to know better. But I've given you fair warning. ²⁶"So if they say, ‘Run to the country and see him arrive!' or, ‘Quick, get downtown, see him come!' don't give them the time of day. The Arrival of the Son of Man isn't something you go to see. He comes like swift lightning to you! Whenever you see crowds gathering, think of carrion vultures circling, moving in, hovering over a rotting carcass. You can be quite sure that it's not the living Son of Man pulling in those crowds. ²⁹ "Following those hard times, Sun will fade out, moon cloud over, Stars fall out of the sky, cosmic powers tremble. ³⁰"Then, the Arrival of the Son of Man! It will fill the skies—no one will miss it. Unready people all over the world, outsiders to the splendor and power, will raise a huge lament as they watch the Son of Man blazing out of heaven. At that same moment, he'll dispatch his angels with a trumpet-blast summons, pulling in God's chosen from the four winds, from pole to pole.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye shall hear: Jeremiah 4:19-22, Jeremiah 6:22-24, Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 8:16, Jeremiah 47:6, Ezekiel 7:24-26, Ezekiel 14:17-21, Ezekiel 21:9-15, Ezekiel 21:28, Daniel 11:1-45, Mark 13:7, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:9

see: Psalms 27:1-3, Psalms 46:1-3, Psalms 112:7, Isaiah 8:12-14, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Isaiah 26:20, Isaiah 26:21, Habakkuk 3:16-18, Luke 21:19, John 14:1, John 14:27, 2 Thessalonians 2:2, 1 Peter 3:14, 1 Peter 3:15

must: Matthew 26:54, Luke 22:37, Acts 27:24-26

but: Matthew 24:14, Daniel 9:24-27

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:15 - the earth quaked 2 Chronicles 15:5 - great vexations Job 5:20 - in war Psalms 91:6 - destruction Proverbs 3:25 - Be Isaiah 7:4 - fear not Jeremiah 49:14 - heard Jeremiah 51:46 - lest Daniel 9:26 - and the end Obadiah 1:1 - We Matthew 24:13 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 24:22
When the camels had finished drinking, the man brought out gifts, a gold nose ring weighing a little over a quarter of an ounce and two arm bracelets weighing about four ounces, and gave them to her. He asked her, "Tell me about your family? Whose daughter are you? Is there room in your father's house for us to stay the night?"

Galatians 5:1
Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars,.... This is the second sign of the destruction of Jerusalem: it is observable that this, and some of the following signs, are given by the Jews, as signs of the Messiah's coming; whereas they were forerunners of their ruin, for the rejection of him who was already come. They suppose the Messiah will come in the seventh year, or the year of rest and release:

"On the seventh year (they say h) will be מלחמות, "wars": and in the going out, or at the close of the seventh year, the son of David will come.''

Which wars, the gloss says, will be between the nations of the world, and Israel. Here wars may mean the commotions, insurrections, and seditions, against the Romans, and their governors; and the intestine slaughters committed among them, some time before the siege of Jerusalem, and the destruction of it. Under Cureanus the Roman governor, a sedition was raised on the day of the passover, in which twenty thousand perished; after that, in another tumult, ten thousand were destroyed by cut-throats: in Ascalon two thousand more, in Ptolemais two thousand, at Alexandria fifty thousand, at Damascus ten thousand, and elsewhere in great numbers i. The Jews were also put into great consternation, upon hearing the design of the Roman emperor, to put up his image in their temple:

see that ye be not troubled; so as to leave the land of Judea as yet, and quit the preaching of the Gospel there, as if the final destruction was just at hand;

for all these things must come to pass; these wars and the reports of them and the panic on account of them; these commotions and slaughters, and terrible devastations by the sword must be; being determined by God, predicted by Christ, and brought upon the Jews by their own wickedness; and suffered in righteous judgment, for their sin:

but the end is not yet; meaning not the end of the world, but the end of Jerusalem, and the temple, the end of the Jewish state; which were to continue, and did continue after these disturbances in it.

h T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 97. 1. & Megilia, fol. 17. 2. Zohar in Exod. fol. 3. 3, 4. i Vid. Joseph. Antiq. l. 20. c. 6. & de Bello Jud. l. 2, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And ye shall hear of wars ... - It is recorded in the history of Rome that violent agitations prevailed in the Roman empire previous to the destruction of Jerusalem. Four emperors, Nero, Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, suffered violent deaths in the short space of eighteen months. In consequence of these changes in the government, there were commotions throughout the empire. Parties were formed, and bloody and violent wars were the consequence of attachment to particular emperors. This is the more remarkable, as at the time that the prophecy was made, the empire was in a state of peace.

Rumours of wars - Wars declared or threatened, but not carried into execution. Josephus says that Bardanes, and after him Vologeses, declared war against the Jews, but it was not carried into execution, Antig. xx. 34. He also says that Vitellius, governor of Syria, declared war against Aretas, king of Arabia, and wished to lead his army through Palestine, but the death of Tiberius prevented the war, Antiq. xviii. 5. 3.

The end is not yet - The end of the Jewish economy; the destruction of Jerusalem will not immediately follow. Be not, therefore, alarmed when you hear of those commotions. Other signs will warn you when to be alarmed and seek security.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

The SECOND sign, wars and commotions.

Verse Matthew 24:6. The next signs given by our Lord are wars and rumours of wars, c.] These may be seen in Josephus, Ant. b. xviii. c. 9 War, b. ii. c. 10; especially as to the rumours of wars, when Caligula ordered his statue to be set up in the temple of God, which the Jews having refused, had every reason to expect a war with the Romans, and were in such consternation on the occasion that they even neglected to till their land.