Luke 21:23
But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing a baby in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath among this people.
English Majority Text (NT)
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In Context
22For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that has been written.
Cross References
Matthew 21:44And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”
Mark 13:17But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
Luke 19:43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and hem you in from every side,
1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God has come upon them to the uttermost. 1 Paul's Longing to See Them Again
Hebrews 10:26For if we sin willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
Matthew Henry on Luke 21:21-29
Judgments Predicted. 20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. 22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the… Read the whole commentary →