Mark 13:8

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

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WEBBE

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

BSB

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, as well as famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

KJV

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

ASV

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be famines: these things are the beginning of travail.

BBE

Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles.

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ἐγερθήσεται egerthēsetai Will rise up G1453 γὰρ gar for G1063 ἔθνος ethnos nation G1484 ἐπ ep᾽ against G1909 ἔθνος ethnos nation G1484 καὶ kai and G2532 βασιλεία basileia kingdom G932 ἐπὶ epi against G1909 βασιλείαν basileian kingdom G932 καὶ kai and G2532 ἔσονται esontai There will be G1510 σεισμοὶ seismoi earthquakes G4578 κατὰ kata throughout G2596 τόπους topous places G5117 καὶ kai and G2532 ἔσονται esontai there will be G1510 λιμοί limoi famines G3042 καὶ kai and G2532 ταραχαί tarachai disturbance G5016 ἀρχὴ archē [The] beginning G746 ὠδίνων ōdinōn of birth pains [are] G5604 ταῦτα.¶ tauta these G3778

The early church

It goes on: For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. (ubi sup.) Now it is on record that this literally took place at the time of the Jewish rebellion. But kingdom against kingdom, the pestilence of those whose word spreads as a canker, dearth of the word of God, the commotion of the whole earth, and the separation from the true faith, may all rather be understood of heretics who, by fighting one against the other, bring about the triumph of the Church.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
What follows shows that God fought against the Jews, for it is said, And there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(Epist. cxcix. 9.) In answer to the disciples, the Lord tells them of things which were from that time forth to have their course; whether He meant the destruction of Jerusalem which occasioned their question, or His own coming through the Church, (in which He ever comes even unto the end, for we know that He comes in His own, when His members are born day by day,) or the end itself, in which He will appear to judge the quick and the dead.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 5–13

Our Lord Jesus, in reply to the disciples' question, does not so much satisfy their curiosity as direct their consciences. When many are deceived, we should thereby be awakened to look to ourselves. And the disciples of Christ, if it be not their own fault, may enjoy holy security and peace of mind, when all around is in disorder. But they must take heed that they are not drawn away from Christ and their duty to him, by the sufferings they will meet with for his sake. They shall be hated of all men: trouble enough! Yet the work they were called to should be carried on and prosper. Though they may be crushed and borne down, the gospel cannot be. The salvation promised is more than deliverance from evil, it is everlasting blessedness.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.