Mark 13:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 13

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

⁸For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Mark 13:8 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Mark 13:7 Mark 13:9 →

Original word meaning

— of 22

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 24:8
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Isaiah 37:3
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Psalms 48:6
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Micah 4:9-10
Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. …

Topics

Earthquakes Israel, Prophecies Concerning

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-13)

Our Lord Jesus, in reply to their question, sets himself, not so much to satisfy their curiosity as to direct their consciences; leaves them still in the dark concerning the times and seasons, which the father has kept in his own power, and which it was not for them to know; but gives them the cautions which were needful, with reference to the events that should now shortly come to pass. I. They m…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. These are the beginnings of sorrows--“of travail-pangs,” to which heavy calamities are compared. (See Jr 4:31, &c.). The annals of Tacitus tell us how the Roman world was convulsed, before the destruction of Jerusalem, by rival claimants of the imperial purple.