Matthew 24:22
And except those days were shortened, there would be no flesh saved: but for the elect’s sake these days shall be shortened.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
23Then if any man say unto you, Lo! here is the Messiah, or there; believe it not:
Cross References
Matthew 22:14For many are called, but few elect.
Matthew 24:31And he shall send forth his angels with a trumpet, and a great shout, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the extremities of the heavens to the extremities of the same.
Luke 18:7And shall not God execute vengeance for his own elect, who cry out to him day and night, though he bear long with them?
Romans 11:25For I would not that you should be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is come on Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
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 →