Matthew 24:8
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
KJV
πάντα δὲ ταῦτα ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων.
Greek NT
hæc autem omnia initia sunt dolorum.
Vulgate
But all these things are the beginning of travail.
ASV
Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
5 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἀρχή
arche
noun · 56×
ὠδίν
odin
noun · 4×
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 4:17 — For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
- 1Thess 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.
- Deut 28:59 — Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- Isa 9:17 — Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all
- Isa 10:4 — Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Mark 13:8 — For 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.