Matthew 24:19 & Luke 21:24 - Taken captive (1st century historical fulfillment?)

Matthew 24:19 & Luke 21:24 (1st century historical fulfillment?)

Matthew 24:19 & Luke 21:23 - Wrath against this people (1st century historical fulfillment?): Click here

Matthew 24:19 & Luke 21:24

Matthew 24:20 - Flight on a Sabbath (1st century historical understanding?): Click here

Matthew 24:19: "And woe (to) the (ones) having (a child) in (the) womb, and (to) the (ones) nursing in those days."

The parallel account in Luke reads:

Luke 21:23: "Woe (to) the (ones) having (a child) in (the) womb, and (to) the (ones) nursing in those days. For there-will-be (a) great distress upon the land, and wrath (against) this people."

Luke 21:24: "And they-will-fall (by the) edge (of the) sword. And they-will-be-taken-captive to all the nations. And Jerusalem will-be being-trampled by (the) Gentiles until which (time the) times (of the) Gentiles are fulfilled."

1st century

The parallel account to Matthew 24:19 in Luke, found in Luke 21:23-24, will be specifically addressed here. 

Jesus said in Luke 21:24: "they-will-fall (by the) edge (of the) sword. And they-will-be-taken-captive to all the nations".

The 1st century historian Josephus recorded that as a result of the Romans attacking Jerusalem in the Jewish War around AD 70, many were taken captive.

The 1st century historian Josephus wrote in "The Wars of the Jews":

(6.9:3): "Now the number of those that were carried captive during the whole war was collected to be ninety-seven thousand (1); as was the number of those that perished during the whole siege, eleven hundred thousand * (2), the greater part of whom were indeed of the same nation, [with the citizens of Jerusalem,] but not belonging to the city itself;".

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