Matthew 24:21 · Darby Translation
Matthew 24:21 in the Original Greek
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Matthew 24:21 in Other Translations
| KJV | For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. |
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| WEB | for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. |
| ASV | for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be. |
| YLT | for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be. |
| WBT | For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. |
| DBY | for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from [the] beginning of [the] world until now, nor ever shall be; |
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What does Matthew 24:21 say?
Matthew 24:21 in the Darby Translation reads: “for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from [the] beginning of [the] world until now, nor ever shall be;” Read it in the full context of Matthew 24, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Matthew 24:21 found in the Bible?
Matthew 24:21 is in the book of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 21, in the New Testament.
What Bible translation is Matthew 24:21 shown in?
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For then shall be great tribulation,.... This is urged as a reason for their speedy flight; since the calamity that would come upon those who should remain in the city, what through the sword, famine, pestilence, murders, robberies, &c. would
be such as was not since the beginning of the world, to this time, no, nor ever shall be. The burning of Sodom and Gomorrha, the bondage of the children of Israel in Egypt, their captivity in Babylon, and all their distresses and afflictions in the times of the Maccabees, are nothing to be compared with the calamities which befell the Jews in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem. Great desolations have been made in the besieging and at the taking of many famous cities, as Troy, Babylon, Carthage, &c. but none of them are to be mentioned with the deplorable case of this city. Whoever reads Josephus's account will be fully convinced of this; and readily join with him, who was an eyewitness of it, when he says (m), that
"never did any city suffer such things, nor was there ever any generation that more abounded in malice or wickedness.''
And indeed, all this came upon them for their impenitence and infidelity, and for their rejection and murdering of the Son of God; for as never any before, or since, committed the sin they did, or ever will, so there never did, or will, the same calamity befall a nation, as did them.
(m) De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 11.