Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 24:8

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Mark hath the same, Ch. 13.7, 8. Luke hath also much the same, Ch. 21.9, 10, 11. Only he addeth fearful Sights, and great Signs shall there be from Heaven. Interpreters think this Prophecy did chiefly respect the Destruction of Ierusalem, for the time from our Saviours Death, to that time, was full of Seditions and Insurrections, both in Iudea, and elsewhere. The Truth of our Saviours Words as to this is atte[illegible: 1 letter]ted by Iosephus largely from the 11. Chap. of his second Book of the Wars of the Iews, to the end of the fourth Book, besides that there was great Wars between Otho, and Vitellius and Vespasian, the Roman Emperor who succeeded Nero. We read of one Famine, Acts 11.28. which Agabus there Prophesied should be in the time of Claudius Caesar. Of Earthquakes in several places, mention is made in divers Histories. Our Saviour tells them, that these things should be, but the end should not be presently, which any one that will Read Iosephus his History of the Wars of the Iews, will see abundantly verifyed upon the taking of Ierusalem by the Roman Armies.