Revelation 12:2

The Text-Critical English New Testament

She was with child and cried out in the pain and agony of giving birth.

Cross References

Matthew 24:8

But all these things are the beginning of the labor pains.

John 16:21

When a woman is giving birth, she has pain because her hour has come, but when her baby is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, for whom I am again suffering labor pains until Christ is formed in you,

Galatians 4:27

For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren woman, who has never given birth; break forth and shout, yoʋ who have never been in labor! For many are the children of the desolate woman, more than those of the woman who has a husband.”

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.