geneva - 24

geneva@Matthew:24:1 @ And Iesus went out, and departed from the Temple, and his disciples came to him, to shewe him the building of the Temple.

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geneva@Matthew:24:3 @ And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues, his disciples came vnto him apart, saying, Tell vs when these things shall be, and what signe shalbe of thy coming, and of the ende of the world.

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geneva@Matthew:24:5 @ For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceiue many.

geneva@Matthew:24:6 @ And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the (note:)That is, when those things are fulfilled, yet the end will not come.(:note) end is not yet.

geneva@Matthew:24:7 @ For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in (note:)Everywhere.(:note) divers places.

geneva@Matthew:24:8 @ All these [are] the beginning of (note:)Literally, «of great torments», just like women in childbirth.(:note) sorrows.

geneva@Matthew:24:9 @ Then shal they deliuer you vp to be afflicted, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my Names sake.

geneva@Matthew:24:10 @ And then shall many be offended, and shal betray one another, and shall hate one another.

geneva@Matthew:24:11 @ And many false prophets shall arise, & shall deceiue many.

geneva@Matthew:24:12 @ And because iniquitie shalbe increased, the loue of many shalbe colde.

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geneva@Matthew:24:14 @ And this (note:)Joyful tidings of the kingdom of heaven.(:note) gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the Through all that part of the world that people live in. world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

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geneva@Matthew:24:16 @ Then let them which be in Iudea, flee into the mountaines.

geneva@Matthew:24:17 @ Let him which is on the house top, not come downe to fetch any thing out of his house.

geneva@Matthew:24:18 @ Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his (note:)This is a sign of how great the fear will be.(:note) clothes.

geneva@Matthew:24:19 @ And woe shalbe to them that are with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.

geneva@Matthew:24:20 @ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the (note:)It was not lawful to take a journey on the sabbath day; Josephus, book 13.(:note) sabbath day:

geneva@Matthew:24:21 @ For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the worlde to this time, nor shalbe.

geneva@Matthew:24:22 @ And except (note:)Those things which befell the people of the Jews in the thirty-four years, when the whole land was wasted, and at length the city of Jerusalem was taken, and both it and their temple destroyed, are mixed with those things which will come to pass before the last coming of the Lord.(:note) those days should be shortened, there should no The whole nation would utterly be destroyed: and this word «flesh» is a figurative word for «man», as the Hebrews used to say. flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

geneva@Matthew:24:23 @ Then if any shall say vnto you, Loe, here is Christ, or there, beleeue it not.

geneva@Matthew:24:24 @ For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and (note:)Will openly set forth great signs for men to behold.(:note) shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

geneva@Matthew:24:25 @ Beholde, I haue tolde you before.

geneva@Matthew:24:26 @ Wherefore if they shall say vnto you, Beholde, he is in the desert, goe not forth: Beholde, he is in the secret places, beleeue it not.

geneva@Matthew:24:27 @ For as the lightning commeth out of the East, and is seene into the West, so shall also the coming of the Sonne of man be.

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geneva@Matthew:24:30 @ And then shall appear the (note:)The exceeding glory and majesty, which will bear witness that Christ the Lord of heaven and earth draws near to judge the world.(:note) sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the All nations, and he alludes to the dispersion which we read of in (Genesis 10-11), or to the dividing of the people of Israel. tribes of the earth They will be in such sorrow, that they will strike themselves: and it is transferred to the mourning. mourn, and they shall see the Son of man Sitting upon the clouds, as he was taken up into heaven. coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

geneva@Matthew:24:31 @ And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the (note:)From the four corners of the world.(:note) four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

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geneva@Matthew:24:33 @ So likewise ye, when ye see all these things, know that the kingdom of God is nere, eue at ye doores.

geneva@Matthew:24:34 @ Verily I say unto you, This (note:)This age: the word «generation» or «age» is here being used for the men of this age.(:note) generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

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geneva@Matthew:24:37 @ But as the dayes of Noe were, so likewise shall the coming of the Sonne of man be.

geneva@Matthew:24:38 @ For as in the days that were before the flood they were (note:)The word which the evangelist uses expresses the matter more fully then ours does: for it is a word which is used of brute beasts: and his meaning is that in those days men will pay attention to their appetites just like brute beasts: for otherwise there is nothing wrong with eating and drinking.(:note) eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

geneva@Matthew:24:39 @ And knewe nothing, till the flood came, and tooke them all away, so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be.

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geneva@Matthew:24:43 @ Of this be sure, that if the good man of the house knewe at what watch the thiefe would come, he woulde surely watch, and not suffer his house to be digged through.

geneva@Matthew:24:44 @ Therefore be ye also ready: for in the houre that ye thinke not, will the Sonne of man come.

geneva@Matthew:24:45 @ Who then is a faithfull seruaunt and wise, whom his master hath made ruler ouer his household, to giue them meate in season?

geneva@Matthew:24:46 @ Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.

geneva@Matthew:24:47 @ Verely I say vnto you, he shall make him ruler ouer all his goods.

geneva@Matthew:24:48 @ But if that euil seruant shal say in his heart, My master doth deferre his comming,

geneva@Matthew:24:49 @ And begin to smite his fellowes, & to eate, and to drinke with the drunken,

geneva@Matthew:24:50 @ That seruaunts master will come in a day, when he looketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not ware of,

geneva@Matthew:24:51 @ And shall (note:)That is, from the rest, or will cut him into two pieces, which was a most cruel kind of punishment: with which, as Justin Martyr witnesses, Isaiah the Prophet was executed by the Jews: the same kind of punishment we read of in (1Sa_15:33) and (Dan_3:29).(:note) cut him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 24