a race (as of the same habit) · noun — nominative singular neuter
shall rise
ἘγερθήσεταιEgerthēsetai
G1453
to waken (transitively or intransitively) · verb — future passive indicative, 3rd person singular
against
ἐπὶepi
G1909
properly · preposition
nation
ἔθνοςethnos
G1484
a race (as of the same habit) · noun — accusative singular neuter
and
καὶkai
G2532
and · conjunction
kingdom
βασιλείαbasileia
G932
properly · noun — nominative singular feminine
against
ἐπὶepi
G1909
properly · preposition
kingdom
βασιλείαν,basileian
G932
properly · noun — accusative singular feminine
and
καὶkai
G2532
and · conjunction
there shall be
ἔσομαιésomai
G2071
will be
famines
λιμοὶlimoi
G3042
a scarcity of food · noun — nominative plural masculine
and
καὶkai
G2532
and · conjunction
pestilences
λοιμοὶloimoi
G3061
a plague (literally · noun — nominative plural masculine
and
καὶkai
G2532
and · conjunction
earthquakes
σεισμοὶseismoi
G4578
a commotion · noun — nominative plural masculine
in divers
κατὰkata
G2596
(prepositionally) down (in place or time) · preposition
places
τόπους.topous
G5117
a spot (general in space · noun — accusative plural masculine
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven…
Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them ove…
Isaiah 19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour;…
Zechariah 14:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand…
2 Chronicles 15:6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
Acts 11:28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which c…
Revelation 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and th…
Joel 2:30-31 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
John Gill on Matthew 24:7
This seems to be a distinct and third sign, foreboding the general calamity of the Jews; that there should be not only seditions and intestine wars, in the midst of their country, but there should be wars in other nations, one with another; and with the Jews, and the Jews with them: and this also is made a sign of the Messiah's coming by them, for so they say (k);
"when thou seest, , "kingdoms stirred up one against another", look for the feet of the Messiah: know thou that so it shall be; for so it was in the days of Abraham: by the means of kingdoms stirred up one against another, redemption came to Abraham.''
Poor blinded creatures! when these very things were the forerunners of their…
Matthew 24:1-8
Matthew 24:1-8
Mark 13:1-8
Luke 21:5-11
1. And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple, and his disciples came to him, to point out to him the buildings of the temple. 2. And Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Verily I say to you, There shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down. 3. And while he was sitting on the mountain of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? and what is the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4. And Jesus answering said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5. For many will come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and will deceive many…
these things must take place: Tumultuous times are part of God’s sovereign plan as he brings history to a close (see 24:7, 29-30; 2 Thes 2:8-12). • The end could refer to the close of an epoch (such as at AD 70) or the end of human history as we now know it (cp. Matt 24:13-14; see also 10:22; 13:39-40, 49).
Nation shall rise against nation, shows the disquietude of men's minds; pestilences, the affliction of their bodies; famines, the barrenness of the soil; earthquakes in dicers places, wrath from heaven above.
Figuratively; Kingdom rising against kingdom and pestilence of that discourse which spreadeth as a plague-spot, and hunger of hearing the word of God, and commotion throughout the earth, and separation from the true faith, my be rather understood of the heretics, who fighting among themselves give the victory to the Church.
(Verses 7, 8.) For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be pestilences and famines, and earthquakes in various places. But all these things are the beginnings of sorrows. I do not doubt that these things indeed shall come to pass literally as they are written. But it seems to me that the kingdom against kingdom and their pestilence, whose speech spreads like cancer (2 Timothy 2), and the famine to hear the word of God, and the commotion of the whole earth, and the separation from true faith, are more understood in heretics who fight against each other, making victory for the Church. But what he said: These things, however, are the beginnings of sorrows, are better translated as birth pains, so that it may be understood as a kind of conception of the coming of the Antichrist, not as childbirth.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Matthew, Gospel according to — The author of this book was beyond a doubt the Matthew, an apostle of our Lord, whose name it bears. He wrote the Gospel of Christ according to his own plans and aims, and from his own point of view,…
Olves, Mount of — So called from the olive trees with which its sides are clothed, is a mountain ridge on the east of Jerusalem (1 Kings 11:7; Ezek. 11:23; Zech. 14:4), from which it is separated by the valley of…
Christ, The Prophet · Foretold things to come — Foretold things to come
Earthquakes · Prophecies of — Prophecies of
Famine · Sent as a — Sent as a
Jerusalem · Prophecies respecting: Signs preceding its destruction — Prophecies respecting: Signs preceding its destruction
Plague Or Pestilence, The · Predicted to happen before destruction of Jerusalem — Predicted to happen before destruction of Jerusalem
Second Coming Of Christ, The · Signs preceding — Signs preceding
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
