How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

21 As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. 2 He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. 3 “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 4 All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

Luke 23:29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Deuteronomy 28:56,57

What does Luke 21:23 mean? Jesus told the disciples that though the temple is beautiful, it will be destroyed. The disciples want to know when this will happen (Luke 21:6–7).

1. How does the mention of pregnant and nursing mothers in Luke 21:23 emphasize the severity of the coming distress? 2. In what ways can we prepare spiritually for times of great distress, as described in Luke 21 and related passages? 3.

How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great …

Luke 21:23 KJV: But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.