Revelation 12:2

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

She was with child; and 'she is crying out in the pain and agony of childbirth.'

Cross References

Matthew 24:8

All this, however, will be but the beginning of the birth pangs!

John 16:21

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.

Galatians 4:19

You for whom I am again enduring a mother's pains, till a likeness to Christ shall have been formed in you.

Galatians 4:27

For Scripture says--'Rejoice, thou barren one, who dost never bear, Break into shouts, thou who art never in labor, For many are the children of her who is desolate--aye, more than of her who has a husband.'

Revelation 12:4

His tail draws after it a third of the stars in the heavens, and it hurled them down on the earth. The Dragon is standing in front of the woman who is about to give birth to the child, so that he may devour it as soon as it is born.