Matthew 24:7-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 (A)Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place. 8 [a]All these are the beginning of the labor pains.
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- 24:8 The labor pains: the tribulations leading up to the end of the age are compared to the pains of a woman about to give birth. There is much attestation for rabbinic use of the phrase “the woes (or birth pains) of the Messiah” after the New Testament period, but in at least one instance it is attributed to a rabbi who lived in the late first century A.D. In this Jewish usage it meant the distress of the time preceding the coming of the Messiah; here, the labor pains precede the coming of the Son of Man in glory.
Matthew 24:7-8
New King James Version
7 For (A)nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be (B)famines, [a]pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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- Matthew 24:7 NU omits pestilences
Matthew 24:7-8
King James Version
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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