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King James Version
Matthew 24:8
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These things are only the beginning of troubles, like the first pains of a woman giving birth.
All these are the beginninge of sorowes.
But all these things are only 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 the beginning of travail.
All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.
"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish and the time of unprecedented trouble].
All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
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 birth pains.
But this is just the beginning of troubles.
But all these things are the beginning of travail.
But all these things are the first of the troubles.
all this is but the beginning of the ‘birth-pains.'
But all these [are the] beginning of throes.
But these are all the beginning of sorrows.
But all these are only the commencement of sorrows.
All these are the beginning of sorrowes.
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.
All these are but ye beginning of sorowes.
But all these things are just the beginning of travail.
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 begynnynges of sorowes.
All these things are like the first pains of childbirth.
All these events are the beginning of labor pains.
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
But all these are a beginning of throes.
and all these [are] the beginning of sorrows;
All these are the begynnynge of sorowes.
yet all this is but the beginning of sorrow.
All these things are the beginning of birth pains.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
But this is just the birthin' of the problems that will follow.
"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.
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 thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the Lord shall forgive her.
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
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.
