Mark 13:19

Mark 13:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
• New International Version (NIV)because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be.

Context of Mark 13:19

17Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days! 18“Pray it won’t happen in winter. For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of creation until now and never will be again. 20If the Lord had not cut those days short, no one would be saved. But he cut those days short for the sake of the elect, whom he chose. 21“Then if anyone tells you, ‘See, here is the Messiah! See, there! ’ do not believe it.

Mark 13:19 word by word

ἔσονται γὰρ αἱ ἡμέραι ἐκεῖναι θλῖψις οἵα οὐ γέγονεν τοιαύτη ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς κτίσεως ἣν ἔκτισεν ὁ θεὸς ἕως τοῦ νῦν καὶ οὐ μὴ γένηται.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• thoseἐκεῖνοςekeinos · thatG1565
• daysὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• daysἡμέραhēmera · dayG2250
• shall beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• afflictionθλῖψιςthlipsis · pressureG2347
• such asοἷοςoios · such asG3634
• wasγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• notοὐou · noG3756
• fromἀπόapo · away fromG575
• ·τοιοῦτοςtoioutos · such as thisG5108
• the beginningἀρχήarchē · beginningG746
• of the creationκτίσιςktisis · creationG2937
• whichὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• createdκτίζωktizō · to createG2936
• untoἕωςheōs · untilG2193
• this timeνῦνnun · nowG3568
• ·καίkai · andG2532
• neitherμήmē · notG3361

Cross-references for Mark 13:19

• Deuteronomy 28:59he will bring wondrous plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
• Deuteronomy 29:22“Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it.
• Isaiah 65:12I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not hear; you did what was evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.”
• Lamentations 1:12Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine, which was dealt out to me, which the Lord made me suffer on the day of his burning anger?
• Lamentations 2:13What can I say on your behalf? What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?
• Lamentations 4:6The punishment of my dear people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand laid on it.
• Daniel 9:12He has carried out his words that he spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing on us a disaster that is so great that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done under all of heaven.
• Daniel 12:1At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress such as never has occurred since nations came into being until that time. But at that time all your people who are found written in the book will escape.
• Joel 2:2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and total darkness, like the dawn spreading over the mountains; a great and strong people appears, such as never existed in ages past and never will again in all the generations to come.
• Matthew 24:21For at that time there will be great distress, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again.
• Luke 21:22because these are days of vengeance to fulfill all the things that are written.
• Deuteronomy 4:32“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created mankind on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?

Commentaries on Mark 13:19

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-23Verses 14-23 The Jews in rebelling against the Romans, and in persecuting the Christians, hastened their own ruin apace. Here we have a prediction of that ruin which came upon them within less than forty years after this. Such destruction and desolation, that the like cannot be found in any history. Promises of power to persevere, and cautions against falling away, well agree with each other. But the more we consider these things, the more we shall see…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19For those will be days of tribulation unseen from the beginning of God’s creation until now: This kind of hyperbole (intentional exaggeration for emphasis) is common in Hebrew and Aramaic patterns of speech. It emphasizes the terror of that time and should not be understood as a precise comparison with every other disaster in history. and never to be seen again: The events of 13:14–23 would not end human history. History continued after the destruction of…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be--Such language is not unusual in the Old Testament with reference to tremendous calamities. But it is matter of literal fact that there was crowded into the period of the Jewish war an amount and complication of suffering perhaps unparalleled; as the narrative of Josephus, examined closely and arranged under…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Mark 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings