Mark 13:19

For those will be days of tribulation unseen from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Jesus addresses His disciples during a teaching on future calamity, warning them to pray that the coming crisis does not coincide with winter.

The words — θλῖψις (thlipsis) = tribulation; οὐ (ou) = never. The text declares a period of distress unmatched from creation to the present and without future parallel.

The thread — This description of unparalleled distress echoes Daniel 12:1 and is directly paralleled in Matthew 24:21.

Why it lands — The passage requires readers to acknowledge a crisis beyond human endurance and to recognize that survival depends on divine intervention for the elect.

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The Greek words

King James Version

For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

Cross-references

Daniel 12:1 “At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
Joel 2:2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
Matthew 24:21 For at that time there will be great tribulation, unseen from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
Daniel 9:26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
Lamentations 1:12 Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
Daniel 9:12 You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
Mark 10:6 However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
Luke 21:22 For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
Deuteronomy 4:32 Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
Deuteronomy 28:59 He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.