Matthew 24:19
So then, woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
In Context
18And whoever is in the field, let him not turn back to take his tunic.
20But pray that your flight may not be in winter, or on the Sabbath.
Cross References
2 Samuel 4:4Now Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son with disabled feet. For he was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. And so, his nurse, taking him up, fled. And while she was hurrying, so that she might flee, he fell and was made lame. And he was called Mephibosheth.
Lamentations 4:3GHIMEL. Yet even savages expose their breast and give milk to their young. But the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert.
Luke 21:23Then woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land and great wrath upon this people.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:5-32
Awful Predictions. 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 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 kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall… Read the whole commentary →