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Matthew 24:8
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All these events are the beginning of labor pains.
All these are the beginning of sorrowes.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.
"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.
These things are like the first pains when something new is about to be born.
"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish and the time of unprecedented trouble].
"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.
All these are the beginning of birth pains.
But this is just the beginning of troubles.
all this is but the beginning of the ‘birth-pains.'
But all these [are the] beginning of throes.
These things are only the beginning of troubles, like the first pains of a woman giving birth.
All these are but ye beginning of sorowes.
But all these things are just the beginning of travail.
All these things are like the first pains of childbirth.
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
But all these are a beginning of throes.
But all these things are the beginning of travail.
But all these things are the first of the troubles.
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
But all these things are only the beginning of the birth pains."
But these are all the beginning of sorrows.
But all these are only the commencement of sorrows.
All these are the begynnynges of sorowes.
But all these things are the beginning of travail.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
and alle these ben bigynnyngis of sorewes.
But all these things are the beginning of travail.
All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.
All these things are the beginning of birth pains.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.
These things are the beginning of sorrows and pains.
all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.
But, all these things, are a beginning of birth-pangs.
Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.
all this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.
All these are the beginninge of sorowes.
and all these [are] the beginning of sorrows;
All these are the begynnynge of sorowes.
yet all this is but the beginning of sorrow.
But this is just the birthin' of the problems that will follow.
Contextual Overview
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
But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.
The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."
She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and Yahweh will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and Yahweh will forgive her.
This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was 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.
