Mark 13:7

πολέμους καὶ�. Josephus and Tacitus tell us of plenty; see esp. Tac. Hist. i. 2. For ἀκοάς see on Mark 1:28.

δεῖ γένεσθαι. In all three; from Daniel 2:29; cf. Revelation 1:1. God has so decreed. Cf. Mark 13:10 and Mark 8:31 and mark the characteristic asyndeton; γάρ in Mark 13:5; Mark 13:7 is an interpolation. “The epigrammatic brevity of Mk is specially striking in this context” (Swete).

οὔπω τὸ τέλος. Not yet is the end; Looking back to the disciples’ question about συντεῖσθαι.