Luke 21:23

Woe to those who are with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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 land, and wrath upon this people.

In Context

22For those will be days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”

Mark 13:17Woe to those who are with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days!

Luke 19:43For the days will come upon yoʋ when yoʋr enemies build a barricade around yoʋ and encircle yoʋ, hemming yoʋ in on every side.

1 Thessalonians 2:16by hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they can be saved. In this way they are always filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath has come upon them at last.

Hebrews 10:26For if we continue sinning deliberately 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 →

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