Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 24:8
All these [are] the beginning of (c) sorrows.
(c) Literally, "of great torments", just like women in childbirth.
All these [are] the beginning of (c) sorrows.
(c) Literally, "of great torments", just like women in childbirth.
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 intimate...
THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS - Far heavier calamities are yet to come before the end....
12. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE; THE KING REVEALS THE FUTURE OF THE KINGDOM. Chapter s 24-25. CHAPTER 24 1. The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. (Matthew 24:1 .) 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mat...
MATTHEW 24 F. THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE, AND THE PARABLES OF PAROUSIA (Mark 13*, Luke 21:5 *, Luke 17:23). Mt. follows Mk. fairly closely, but appends other eschatological sayings and illustrative...
1: When Jesus had left the precincts of the Temple, he was going away; and his disciples came to him to point out to him the 2: buildings of the Temple area. He said to them, "Do you not see all these...
THE VISION OF THINGS TO COME (Matthew 24:1-31) We have already seen that it is one of the great characteristics of Matthew that he gathers together in large blocks the teaching of Jesus about differe...
,29-31 "You will hear of wars and reports of wars. See that you are not disturbed; for these things must happen; for the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingd...
THE. a. SORROWS. birth-pangs....
_sorrows_ Literally, PAINS OF TRAVAIL, that preceded the birth of a new order of things, a fresh _æon_....
ὨΔΊΝΩΝ. Literally, pains of travail, that preceded the birth of a new order of things, a fresh _æon_, the παλινγενεσία....
Matthew 24:1-22. PREDICTION OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM Mark 13:1–end. Luke 21:5-36 This chapter opens with the great discourse of Jesus, which is continued to the end of ch. 25. That discourse contains...
VER 6. "AND YE SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS: SEE THAT YE BE NOT TROUBLED : FOR ALL THESE THINGS MUST COME TO PASS, BUT THE END IS NOT YET. 7. FOR NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDO...
_QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM MATTHEW 24:1-14_ : As Matthew twenty-three ends Jesus laments the terrible things which would come upon that generation. (Matthew 23:36) He knew that even...
ΑΡΧΉ (G746) начало, ΏΔΊΝ (G5604) родовые схватки, тяжкий труд, тяготы. Иисус хочет сказать этой фразой о беспрецедентно тяжелом периоде, который будет предшествовать мессианскому спасению (Allen; HJP...
ALL THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS— αρχη ωδινων, _the beginning of throes,_ or _pangs._ Great troubles and calamities are often expressed in Scripture language metaphorically, by the pangs of trav...
II. THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND ITS TEMPLE (24:4-35) GENERAL WARNING AGAINST MISLEADING SIGNS NOT RELATED TO THE END (24:4-13) TEXT: 24:4-13 (Parallels: Mark 13:5-13; Luke 21:8-19) 4 And Jesus...
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best appreh...
1-14 Compare Mar_13:1-13; Luk_21:5-19. 1 The sanctuary was doomed, for it was no longer even a nominal shrine after He had left its courts. It was almost unbelievable that such buildings, with such en...
BEGINNING OF SORROWS] RV 'of travail.' Jewish writers speak frequently of the socalled 'sorrows of the Messiah,' which are to last nine months, and to be the birthpangs of the coming age. They would b...
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THE END OF THE WORLD (Mark 13:8; Luke 21:7). Many of the most serious difficulties of this great discourse disappear when it is realised that our Lo...
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD FORETOLD 1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way, and his disciples,' etc. THE BUILDINGS] The magnificent...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 JESUS TELLS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE *TEMPLE 24:1-2 V1 Then Jesus left the *Temple. He was walking away when his *disciples came u...
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 Ma...
CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...
πάντα δὲ : yet all these but a beginning of pains. It is not necessary to find here an allusion to the Rabbinical idea of the birth pangs of Messiah, but simply the use of a natural and frequent Bibli...
_Signs prelusive of the end_. (Mark 13:5-13; Luke 21:8-19). Matthew 24:4. βλέπετε : again (_vide_ Matthew 24:2), but here = see to it,
BE READY TO ENDURE Matthew 24:1-14 Successive generations have pored over these words of our Lord with great eagerness, endeavoring to extract from them a clear forecast of the future. In the case o...
Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building would be demolished so that no single stone would be left u...
CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin
"And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? (4)...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
8._But all these things are the beginnings of sorrows. _Not that believers, who always have abundant consolations in calamities, should consume themselves with grief, but that they should lay their ac...
We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position of...
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...
All these _are_ the beginning of sorrows. Ver. 8. _All these are the beginning, &c._] _q.d._ There yet remain far worse matters than war, -famine, pestilence, earthquakes. _Adhuc restant gravissimi p...
_And ye shall hear of wars_, &c. This is the second sign. That there were wars and rumours of wars, appears by all the historians of those times, and above all by Josephus. To relate the particulars w...
Other external signs:...
ALL THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS. Christ's recital is impressive, dramatic: It will so happen, there is no question about it. he multiplicity of wars, the restlessness preceding, following wars,...
He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the w...
4-28 The disciples had asked concerning the times, When these things should be? Christ gave them no answer to that; but they had also asked, What shall be the sign? This question he answers fully. Th...
Ver. 6-8. Mark hath the same, MARK 13:7,8. Luke hath also much the same, LUKE 21:9, only he addeth, _fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven._ Interpreters think this prophecy did ch...
Matthew 24:8 All G1161 G3956 these G5023 beginning G746 sorrows G5604 Leviticus 26:18-29;...
JESUS' WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE FUTURE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-26). After having prepared His disciples and would be...
WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-51). a Introduction in which Jesus declares that the Temple will be utterly destroyed (Matthew 24:...
1) OUTLINE OF THE GENERAL FUTURE OF THE WORLD DESCRIBING THE INITIAL BIRTH PAINS OF THE NEW AGE (24:4-8). Jesus begins by outlining the coming initial sufferings of the world, the ‘birth pains' of th...
“But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.” So all these thing will be but the first contractions in the process leading up to His coming. There will still be a long way to go. Such birth...
THE BEGINNING OF BIRTH PAINS (THE EARLY CONTRACTIONS) (24:5-8). Jesus begins by describing the turbulent future that the world must face. This should not have been surprising to anyone who knew the Sc...
Matthew 24:8. THE BEGINNING OF TRAVAIL, _i.e._, birth pangs. The physical woes are the basis of the greater succeeding moral woes. ‘The death - throes of the Jewish state precede the” regeneration” of...
THE BEGINNING OF TRAVAIL (αρχη οδινων). The word means birth-pangs and the Jews used the very phrase for the sufferings of the Messiah which were to come before the coming of the Messiah (Book of Ju...
Matthew 24:6 The Storm and Strife of Life. I. It was with the clearest prevision of the course of the development of Christendom that the Saviour uttered this dark prediction. He knew that strife wou...
Matthew 24:1. _And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciple came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily...
Matthew 24:1. _And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple._ Ah, me! the rejected king took but slight interest in the...
CONTENTS: Destruction of the temple foretold. The course of the present age outlined; its culmination in the great tribulation and followed by the return of Christ in power and glory. Parable of the f...
Matthew 24:1. _The buildings of the temple._ Herod had gradually rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the second t...
LIKE THE FIRST PAINS OF CHILDBIRTH. The birth and growth of the Kingdom/church would be during the death-agony of the Jewish Age. Compare _Revelation 6._ ALL MANKIND WILL HATE YOU BECAUSE OF ME. The D...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:1 The Delay, Return, and Judgment of the Messiah. These two chapters are often called the “Olivet Discourse” because Jesus “sat on the Mount of Olives” when he spoke these w...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:8 BIRTH PAINS indicates that there will be a time of suffering prior to the messianic age (compare Romans 8:22). Prophets used the metaphor of birth
JESUS TELLS ABOUT THE FUTURE MATTHEW 24:1-28; MARK 13:1-23; LUKE 21:5-24; MATTHEW 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple
1-51 CHAPTER 24 _And Jesus went out_, &c., according to His custom at eventide, to the Mount of Olives, to pass the night, and partake of food at Bethany, in the house of Martha and Mary, after He h...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 24:1. TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE.—Was that glorious house indeed to be left “desolate”? Would not the sight of its glories lead Him to recall those words of evil...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 24:1 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END. ...
Now Jesus went out (Matthew 24:1), Left the house desolate. He is rejected now. They've rejected Him, now He has rejected them. Leave the house desolate; you're not going to see me again until you ar...
1 Peter 4:17; 1 Peter 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Deuteronomy 28:59;...