Matthew Chapter 24 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 24:8

But all these things are the beginning of travail.
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BBE Matthew 24:8

But all these things are the first of the troubles.
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DARBY Matthew 24:8

But all these [are the] beginning of throes.
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KJV Matthew 24:8

All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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WBT Matthew 24:8


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WEB Matthew 24:8

But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
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YLT Matthew 24:8

and all these `are' the beginning of sorrows;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Beginning of sorrows; ὠδίνων: labour pangs, travailings. The metaphor often occurs (see Isaiah 26:17; Jeremiah 13:21; Hosea 13:13, etc). These great events are called "labour pangs" because they usher in the new creation, "the regeneration" spoken of in Matthew 19:28 (see note there). St. Paul writes (Romans 8:22), "The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." The tribulations and calamities which preceded and accompanied the overthrow of the Jewish polity are a sign and warning of the great and universal woes Which shall herald the day of judgment. Jewish writings speak of "the sorrows of Messiah," distresses, wars, famine, dissension, etc., which should herald his advent, and Christ may have used the popular opinion, true as far as it went, as a vehicle for conveying the further truth, that the coming age would be produced amid terrible agonies of men, peoples, and nature.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) The beginning of sorrows.--The words mean strictly, the beginning of travail pangs. The troubles through which the world passes are thought of as issuing in a "new birth"--the "regeneration" of Matthew 19:28. So St. Paul speaks of the whole creation as "travailing in pain together" (Romans 8:22). So a time of national suffering and perplexity is one in which "the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth" (Isaiah 37:3).