Zetemata

Matthew 24

The chapter in full, then what it says, what the Greek or Hebrew decides, and where readers have disagreed.

Matthew 24 WEB
  1. 1 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
  2. 2 But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don't you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down."
  3. 3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
  4. 4 Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray.
  5. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.
  6. 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
  7. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
  8. 8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
  9. 9 "Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
  10. 10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
  11. 11 Many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray.
  12. 12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
  13. 13 But he who endures to the end will be saved.
  14. 14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
  15. 15 "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
  16. 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
  17. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.
  18. 18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
  19. 19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
  20. 20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter nor on a Sabbath,
  21. 21 for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
  22. 22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
  23. 23 "Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ!' or, 'There!' don't believe it.
  24. 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
  25. 25 "Behold, I have told you beforehand.
  26. 26 "If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' don't go out; or 'Behold, he is in the inner rooms,' don't believe it.
  27. 27 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
  28. 28 For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together.
  29. 29 "But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
  30. 30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
  31. 31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
  32. 32 "Now from the fig tree learn this parable: When its branch has now become tender and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
  33. 33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that he is near, even at the doors.
  34. 34 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things are accomplished.
  35. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  36. 36 "But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
  37. 37 As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
  38. 38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,
  39. 39 and they didn't know until the flood came and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
  40. 40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left.
  41. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left.
  42. 42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.
  43. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
  44. 44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
  45. 45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
  46. 46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.
  47. 47 Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
  48. 48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'
  49. 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
  50. 50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it and in an hour when he doesn't know it,
  51. 51 and will cut him in pieces and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

Matthew 24: The Discourse on the Mount of Olives

What is happening

Matthew 24 opens the last of Jesus' five great teaching blocks in this gospel, delivered in the final days before the crucifixion. The setting is precise and matters: Jesus has just left the Jerusalem temple — the disciples point out "the buildings of the temple" (24:1) with evident pride, and Jesus answers with a demolition notice: "there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down" (24:2). He then sits on the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron valley with the temple in full view, and the disciples ask privately, "when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?" (24:3).

That question has two parts joined as if they were one — the fall of the temple, and "the end of the age." Whether Jesus is answering one question or two, and where the discourse shifts from one to the other, is the central interpretive problem of the chapter. Everything else follows from how a reader takes that.

The passage, walked through

Warnings before the war (24:4–14). Jesus opens not with timetables but with a warning against deception: "no one leads you astray" (24:4), against false messiahs (24:5), and against being rattled by wars, famines, and earthquakes — "the end is not yet" (24:6). These are "the beginning of birth pains" (24:8) — ὠδίνων, a word for labor pains, not death throes: the point is that suffering here is generative, moving toward something, not merely destructive. Persecution of the disciples themselves follows (24:9–10), and a warning that love will cool as lawlessness multiplies (24:12), set against the promise: "he who endures to the end will be saved" (24:13).

The sign and the flight (24:15–22). The turn comes with "the abomination of desolation... standing in the holy place" — a phrase drawn from Daniel, and Matthew inserts an aside found nowhere else in his narration: "let the reader understand" (24:15), flagging that this is a signal meant to be decoded by those alive to see it. What follows is startlingly concrete and local: flee to the mountains, don't stop for belongings, pray it isn't winter or a Sabbath (24:16–20) — advice that makes little sense for a cosmic finale but exact sense for people escaping a besieged city. The "great suffering, such as has not been... nor ever will be" (24:21) is the language of catastrophe, not necessarily of the literal final end.

Against false signs (24:23–28). A second warning against false messiahs, sharper this time — "false christs and false prophets... great signs and wonders" able to deceive "even the chosen ones" (24:24). The true coming, by contrast, will need no rumor to find it: "as the lightning flashes from the east... so will the coming of the Son of Man be" (24:27) — visible, not whispered about in back rooms.

Cosmic imagery (24:29–31). "Immediately after the suffering of those days" the sun darkens, stars fall, and "the sign of the Son of Man will appear" as "all the tribes of the earth will mourn" (24:29–30) — language drawn from Old Testament prophetic oracles (Isaiah, Joel) that regularly describe historical judgments — the fall of nations — in this cosmic vocabulary, not only the literal end of the physical universe. That background matters for how the verses are read; it does not by itself settle whether Matthew intends the historical fall of Jerusalem, the final end, or both folded together.

The fig tree and "this generation" (24:32–35). The chapter's most contested verse: "this generation will not pass away until all these things are accomplished" (24:34). Whatever "these things" refers to, Jesus anchors the certainty of his words against the certainty of the cosmos itself: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away" (24:35).

No one knows the day (24:36–44). A hard pivot: the timing above was calculable — "know that he is near" (24:33) — but this is not: "no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only" (24:36). Noah's flood is the model — ordinary life, "eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage," continuing right up to the point of judgment (24:37–39). "One will be taken and one will be left" (24:40–41) is often read as a rapture of believers off the earth; the flood analogy actually reverses that — in Noah's story, those "taken" by the flood are the ones destroyed, and Noah is the one "left." The image argues for readiness, not for a particular mechanism of removal.

Two parables of readiness (24:45–51). The faithful servant, given charge of the household, is blessed if found "doing so" at the master's unexpected return (24:45–47). The wicked servant presumes on the delay — "My lord is delaying his coming" (24:48) — and abuses those under him; his judgment is severe: "weeping and grinding of teeth" (24:51).

Where readers have disagreed

The chapter's crux is whether verses 4–35 describe the fall of Jerusalem (AD 70), the final end, or both without a clean seam. Preterist readers (with strong support from the Roman siege that literally left the temple flattened, fulfilling 24:2) take most of the discourse — including much of the cosmic language — as fulfilled in AD 70, with "this generation" (24:34) meaning Jesus' own contemporaries, which fits naturally if the referent is the temple's fall within living memory. Futurist readers take the "abomination of desolation," the cosmic collapse, and the Son of Man's visible coming as still future, either wholly or in a "double fulfillment" where the AD 70 disaster prefigures a final one. The hinge many propose falls between 24:28 and 24:29 ("immediately after") — though "immediately" sits awkwardly if two millennia separate the events, a difficulty proponents of this reading acknowledge rather than dissolve. What is not seriously disputed is the ethical thrust of the second half: no one, on any reading, gets a timetable for personal use; the text repeatedly forecloses that.

What it asks of a reader

The discourse does not hand out a calendar; it withholds one on purpose, and pairs that withholding with a demand for constant readiness rather than anxious calculation. The servant who is blessed is not the one who correctly predicted the hour but the one found "doing so" — faithfully carrying out ordinary responsibility — whenever the hour comes. N.T. Wright's observation in Surprised by Hope — "Heaven is important, but it's not the end of the world" — names what this chapter's imagery is doing: its horizon is not escape from the earth but the arrival of judgment and vindication within history and beyond it, pressing toward a coming that is public, unmistakable, and certain even though its timing is deliberately hidden. What the text asks of anyone reading it seriously is not to solve the timetable but to live as the faithful servant does — awake, working, unsurprised by delay, and unashamed to be found at the task when the door opens.

The verses this turns on

Matthew 24:1 WEB
Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

Καὶ ἐξελθὼν ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἐπορεύετο, καὶ προσῆλθον οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπιδεῖξαι αὐτῷ τὰς οἰκοδομὰς τοῦ ἱεροῦ.

  • Καὶ καί conjunction G2532
  • ἐξελθὼν ἐξέρχομαι verb · aorist active participle, nominative singular masculine G1831
  • ὁ ὁ article · nominative singular masculine G3588
  • Ἰησοῦς Ἰησοῦς noun · nominative singular masculine G2424
  • ἀπὸ ἀπό preposition G575
  • τοῦ ὁ article · genitive singular neuter G3588
  • ἱεροῦ ἱερός noun · genitive singular neuter G2411
  • ἐπορεύετο, πορεύομαι verb · imperfect middle or passive deponent indicative, 3rd person singular G4198
  • καὶ καί conjunction G2532
  • προσῆλθον προσέρχομαι verb · aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural G4334
  • οἱ ὁ article · nominative plural masculine G3588
  • μαθηταὶ μαθητής noun · nominative plural masculine G3101

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Mark 13:1 As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"
  2. Luke 21:5 As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
  3. Ezekiel 8:6 He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations."
  4. Jeremiah 6:8 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land."
  5. Matthew 23:39 For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"
Matthew 24:2 WEB
But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don't you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down."
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Οὐ βλέπετε ταῦτα πάντα; ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, οὐ μὴ ἀφεθῇ ὧδε λίθος ἐπὶ λίθον ὃς οὐ καταλυθήσεται.

  • ὁ ὁ article · nominative singular masculine G3588
  • δὲ δέ conjunction G1161
  • ἀποκριθεὶς ἀποκρίνομαι verb · aorist passive deponent participle, nominative singular masculine G611
  • εἶπεν λέγω verb · aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular G3004
  • αὐτοῖς αὐτός personal pronoun · dative plural masculine G846
  • Οὐ οὐ particle · nominative G3756
  • βλέπετε βλέπω verb · present active indicative, 2nd person plural G991
  • ταῦτα οὗτος demonstrative pronoun · accusative plural neuter G3778
  • πάντα; πᾶς adjective · accusative plural neuter G3956
  • ἀμὴν ἀμήν Hebrew transliteration G281
  • λέγω λέγω verb · present active indicative, 1st person singular G3004
  • ὑμῖν, σύ personal pronoun G4771

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Luke 19:44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
  2. Jeremiah 26:18 "Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, 'Yahweh of Armies says: "'Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.'
  3. Micah 3:12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
  4. Ezekiel 7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
  5. Daniel 9:26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
Matthew 24:3 WEB
As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

Καθημένου δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὄρους τῶν Ἐλαιῶν προσῆλθον αὐτῷ οἱ μαθηταὶ κατ’ ἰδίαν λέγοντες Εἰπὲ ἡμῖν, πότε ταῦτα ἔσται, καὶ τί τὸ σημεῖον τῆς σῆς παρουσίας καὶ συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος;

  • Καθημένου κάθημαι verb · present middle or passive deponent participle, genitive singular masculine G2521
  • δὲ δέ conjunction G1161
  • αὐτοῦ αὐτός personal pronoun · genitive singular masculine G846
  • ἐπὶ ἐπί preposition G1909
  • τοῦ ὁ article · genitive singular neuter G3588
  • ὄρους ὄρος noun · genitive singular neuter G3735
  • τῶν ὁ article · genitive plural feminine G3588
  • Ἐλαιῶν ἐλαία noun · genitive plural feminine G1636
  • προσῆλθον προσέρχομαι verb · aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural G4334
  • αὐτῷ αὐτός personal pronoun · dative singular masculine G846
  • οἱ ὁ article · nominative plural masculine G3588
  • μαθηταὶ μαθητής noun · nominative plural masculine G3101

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Mark 13:3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,
  2. Acts 1:7 He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 5:1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
  4. Matthew 13:49 So it will be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
  5. Matthew 24:37 As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matthew 24:4 WEB
Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray.
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Βλέπετε μή τις ὑμᾶς πλανήσῃ.

  • καὶ καί conjunction G2532
  • ἀποκριθεὶς ἀποκρίνομαι verb · aorist passive deponent participle, nominative singular masculine G611
  • ὁ ὁ article · nominative singular masculine G3588
  • Ἰησοῦς Ἰησοῦς noun · nominative singular masculine G2424
  • εἶπεν λέγω verb · aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular G3004
  • αὐτοῖς αὐτός personal pronoun · dative plural masculine G846
  • Βλέπετε βλέπω verb · present active imperative, 2nd person plural G991
  • μή μή particle · nominative G3361
  • τις τὶς indefinite pronoun · nominative singular masculine G5100
  • ὑμᾶς σύ personal pronoun G4771
  • πλανήσῃ. πλανάω verb · aorist active subjunctive, 3rd person singular G4105

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction.
  2. 1 John 4:1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
  3. Jeremiah 29:8 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: "Don't let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don't listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
  4. Colossians 2:8 Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the world, and not after Christ.
  5. Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Matthew 24:5 WEB
For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

πολλοὶ γὰρ ἐλεύσονται ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί μου λέγοντες Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ Χριστός, καὶ πολλοὺς πλανήσουσιν.

  • πολλοὶ πολύς adjective · nominative plural masculine G4183
  • γὰρ γάρ conjunction G1063
  • ἐλεύσονται ἔρχομαι verb · future middle deponent indicative, 3rd person plural G2064
  • ἐπὶ ἐπί preposition G1909
  • τῷ ὁ article · dative singular neuter G3588
  • ὀνόματί ὄνομα noun · dative singular neuter G3686
  • μου ἐγώ personal pronoun G1473
  • λέγοντες λέγω verb · present active participle, nominative plural masculine G3004
  • Ἐγώ ἐγώ personal pronoun G1473
  • εἰμι εἰμί verb · present active indicative, 1st person singular G1510
  • ὁ ὁ article · nominative singular masculine G3588
  • Χριστός, Χριστός noun · nominative singular masculine G5547

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Matthew 24:24 For false christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
  2. Matthew 24:11 Many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray.
  3. Jeremiah 14:14 Then Yahweh said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn't send them. I didn't command them. I didn't speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
  4. 1 John 2:18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
  5. Acts 5:36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nothing.
Matthew 24:6 WEB
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

μελλήσετε δὲ ἀκούειν πολέμους καὶ ἀκοὰς πολέμων· ὁρᾶτε, μὴ θροεῖσθε· δεῖ γὰρ γενέσθαι, ἀλλ’ οὔπω ἐστὶν τὸ τέλος.

  • μελλήσετε μέλλω verb · future active indicative, 2nd person plural G3195
  • δὲ δέ conjunction G1161
  • ἀκούειν ἀκούω verb · present active infinitive G191
  • πολέμους πόλεμος noun · accusative plural masculine G4171
  • καὶ καί conjunction G2532
  • ἀκοὰς ἀκοή noun · accusative plural feminine G189
  • πολέμων· πόλεμος noun · genitive plural masculine G4171
  • ὁρᾶτε, ὁράω verb · present active imperative, 2nd person plural G3708
  • μὴ μή particle · nominative G3361
  • θροεῖσθε· θροέω verb · present middle or passive imperative, 2nd person plural G2360
  • δεῖ δεῖ verb · present active indicative, 3rd person singular G1163
  • γὰρ γάρ conjunction G1063

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. Mark 13:7 "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.
  2. Luke 21:9 When you hear of wars and disturbances, don't be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won't come immediately."
  3. Isaiah 8:12 "Don't call a conspiracy all that this people call a conspiracy. Don't fear their threats or be terrorized.
  4. 1 Peter 3:14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."
  5. John 14:1 "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
Matthew 24:8 WEB
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

πάντα δὲ ταῦτα ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων.

  • πάντα πᾶς adjective · nominative plural neuter G3956
  • δὲ δέ conjunction G1161
  • ταῦτα οὗτος demonstrative pronoun · nominative plural neuter G3778
  • ἀρχὴ ἀρχή noun · nominative singular feminine G746
  • ὠδίνων. ὠδίν noun · genitive plural feminine G5604

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. 1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
  2. 1 Peter 4:17 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?
  3. Deuteronomy 28:59 then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
  4. Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  5. Isaiah 10:4 They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Matthew 24:9 WEB
"Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904

τότε παραδώσουσιν ὑμᾶς εἰς θλῖψιν καὶ ἀποκτενοῦσιν ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἔσεσθε μισούμενοι ὑπὸ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν διὰ τὸ ὄνομά μου.

  • τότε τότε adverb G5119
  • παραδώσουσιν παραδίδωμι verb · future active indicative, 3rd person plural G3860
  • ὑμᾶς σύ personal pronoun G4771
  • εἰς εἰς preposition G1519
  • θλῖψιν θλῖψις noun · accusative singular feminine G2347
  • καὶ καί conjunction G2532
  • ἀποκτενοῦσιν ἀποκτείνω verb · future active indicative, 3rd person plural G615
  • ὑμᾶς, σύ personal pronoun G4771
  • καὶ καί conjunction G2532
  • ἔσεσθε εἰμί verb · future middle deponent indicative, 2nd person plural G1510
  • μισούμενοι μισέω verb · present middle or passive participle, nominative plural masculine G3404
  • ὑπὸ ὑπό preposition G5259

Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.

See also 5
  1. John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
  2. John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
  3. Luke 21:16 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.
  4. Revelation 2:10 Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
  5. Matthew 10:17 But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

From the interpretive tradition

Heaven is important, but it's not the end of the world.
N.T. Wright Surprised by Hope theologian · anglican

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