Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
These are the beginnings of sorrows—"of travail-pangs," to which heavy calamities are compared. (See Jeremiah 4:31, etc.). The annals of TACITUS tell us how the Roman world was convulsed, before the destruction of Jerusalem, by rival claimants of the imperial purple.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Mark 13:8:
Luke 21:10
Revelation 17:11
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