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Matthew 24:8

All these things are the beginning of birth 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

Christian Standard Bible®
All these events are the beginning of labor pains.
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 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

4 Jesus answered them, "Watch out that no one misleads you. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,' and they will mislead many. 6 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. 7 For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these things are the beginning of birth pains. 9 "Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name. 10 Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another. 11 And many false prophets will appear and deceive many, 12 and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the person 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
You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:6
"Be careful never to take my son back there!" Abraham told him.
Genesis 24:17
Abraham's servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug."
Genesis 24:20
She quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.
Numbers 30:5
But if her father overrules her when he hears about it, then none of her vows or her obligations which she has pledged for herself will stand. And the Lord will release her from it, because her father overruled her.
Numbers 30:8
But if when her husband hears it he overrules her, then he will nullify the vow she has taken, and whatever she uttered impulsively which she has pledged for herself. And the Lord will release her from it.
Joshua 9:20
We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them."
John 8:32
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Acts 7:2
So he replied, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather 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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