Mark 13:25 the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'

◄ Mark 13:25 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'

English Standard Version
and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

New American Standard Bible
AND THE STARS WILL BE FALLING from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

King James Bible
And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
the stars will be falling from the sky, and the celestial powers will be shaken.

International Standard Version
the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.'

American Standard Version
and the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the stars of heaven shall be falling down, and the powers that are in heaven, shall be moved.

Darby Bible Translation
and the stars of heaven shall be falling down, and the powers which are in the heavens shall be shaken;

Young's Literal Translation
and the stars of the heaven shall be falling, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

Cross References

Isaiah 34:4
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

Joel 2:30
And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Revelation 6:13
And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:24-27 The disciples had confounded the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world. This mistake Christ set right, and showed that the day of Christ's coming, and the day of judgment, shall be after that tribulation. Here he foretells the final dissolution of the present frame and fabric of the world. Also, the visible appearance of the Lord Jesus coming in the clouds, and the gathering together of all the elect to him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

25. And the stars of heaven shall fall—"and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth" (Lu 21:25, 26).

and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken—Though the grandeur of this language carries the mind over the head of all periods but that of Christ's Second Coming, nearly every expression will be found used of the Lord's coming in terrible national judgments: as of Babylon (Isa 13:9-13); of Idumea (Isa 34:1, 2, 4, 8-10); of Egypt (Eze 32:7, 8); compare also Ps 18:7-15; Isa 24:1, 17-19; Joe 2:10, 11, &c. We cannot therefore consider the mere strength of this language a proof that it refers exclusively or primarily to the precursors of the final day, though of course in "that day" it will have its most awful fulfilment.