Matthew 24:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

It will be a terrible time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children.

Cross References

2 Samuel 4:4

Saul's son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth, who had not been able to walk since he was five years old. It happened when someone from Jezreel told his nurse that Saul and Jonathan had died. She hurried off with the boy in her arms, but he fell and injured his legs.

Lamentations 4:10

Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.

Hosea 13:16

Samaria will be punished for turning against me. It will be destroyed in war— children will be beaten against rocks, and pregnant women will be ripped open.

Matthew 21:16

The men said to Jesus, “Don't you hear what those children are saying?” “Yes, I do!” Jesus answered. “Don't you know that the Scriptures say, ‘Children and infants will sing praises’?”

Matthew 24:18

If you are out in the field, don't go back for your coat.

Matthew 24:20

And pray that you won't have to escape in winter or on a Sabbath.

Luke 21:23

It will be an awful time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children! Everywhere in the land people will suffer horribly and be punished.