The beginning of travail (αρχη οδινων). The word means birth-pangs and the Jews used the very phrase for the sufferings of the Mes…

The beginning of sorrows. Far heavier calamities are yet to come before the end.

The beginning of sorrows—The words literally mean, the beginning of labor pains. The troubles through which the world pas…

See that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom …

St. Augustine of Hippo: To this inquiry from the disciples, the Lord answers by declaring all things that were to come to pass f…

“Birth pains” (GK 6047) stems from such OT passages as Isa 13:8; 26:17; Jeremiah 4:31; 6:24; Micah 4:9–10. By this time it wa…

But all these things are the beginnings of sorrows. Not that believers, who always have abundant consolations in calamities, should consum…

All these are the beginning of sorrows
They were only a prelude unto them, and forerunners of them; they were only s…

The disciples had asked concerning the times, "When should these things be?" Christ gave them no answer to that; but they had also asked, "What sha…

Here, the multiple provocations of the Jews were recounted; now, the preparation for Christ’s departure through the instruction of His disciples is…