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For nation will arise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. But all these things are[a] a beginning of birth-pains. Then[b] they will hand you over to affliction, and they will kill you. And you will be being hated by all the nations because of My name.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 24:8 Or, will be.
  2. Matthew 24:9 That is, next in time (some amount of time after v 6-8); or, next in sequence without reference to time (Next, as the birth-pains continue). Or, At that time (at the time of the birth-pains). The meaning can be affected by which rendering is chosen. This word is also in 24:10, 14, 16, 21, 23, 30, 40; 25:1, 7, 31, 34, 37, 41, 44, 45.

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