Discovery BoxMatthew 24:9 
Context24:9 “Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations 1 because of my name. 2
Matthew 24:21
Context24:21 For then there will be great suffering 3 unlike anything that has happened 4 from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.
Matthew 24:29
Context24:29 “Immediately 5 after the suffering 6 of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken. 7
1 tn Or “all the Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “nations” or “Gentiles”).
2 sn See Matt 5:10-12; 1 Cor 1:25-31.
3 tn Traditionally, “great tribulation.”
4 sn Suffering unlike anything that has happened. Some refer this event to the destruction of Jerusalem in
5 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
6 tn Traditionally, “tribulation.”
7 sn An allusion to Isa 13:10, 34:4 (LXX); Joel 2:10. The heavens were seen as the abode of heavenly forces, so their shaking indicates distress in the spiritual realm. Although some take the powers as a reference to bodies in the heavens (like stars and planets, “the heavenly bodies,” NIV) this is not as likely.
