Matthew 24:22
And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
23'Then if any one may say to you, Lo, here [is] the Christ! or here! ye may not believe;
Cross References
Isaiah 6:13And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed [is] its substance!'
Zechariah 13:8And it hath come to pass, In all the land, an affirmation of Jehovah, Two parts in it are cut off — they expire, And the third is left in it.
Matthew 22:14for many are called, and few chosen.'
Matthew 24:31and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.
Luke 18:7and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night — bearing long in regard to them?
Romans 11:25For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret — that ye may not be wise in your own conceits — that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may 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 →