Matthew 24:19 & Luke 21:23 - Wrath against this people (1st century historical fulfillment?)
Matthew 24:19 & Luke 21:23 (1st century historical fulfillment?)
Matthew 24:19 - Woe to the ones nursing (1st century historical fulfillment?):
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Matthew 24:19 & Luke 21:23
Matthew 24:19 & Luke 21:24 - Taken captive (1st century historical fulfillment?):
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Matthew 24:20 - Flight on a Sabbath (1st century historical understanding?):
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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 to Matthew 24:19 found in Luke 21:23 reads:
"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."
The parallel account to Matthew 24:19 found in Luke 21:23, will be specifically addressed here.
Local event?
Jesus said in Luke 21:23: "For there-will-be (a) great distress upon the land, and wrath (against) this people".
In the context, 4 verses earlier the account in Luke wrote about Jerusalem and armies surrounding it, and the desolation of Jerusalem coming near: "But when you-see Jerusalem being-surrounded by army-encampments, then recognize that her desolation has-drawn-near." (Luke 21:20). The "wrath (against) this people" could be related to those people who would remain in "Jerusalem" (Luke 21:20) at that time.
Wrath can be administrated by Roman authorities
1st century events?
The 1st century historian Josephus recorded that in the Jewish War, the Roman Titus attacked Jerusalem with his armies to demolish it.
The 1st century historian Josephus wrote in "The Wars of the Jews":
War 7.1 (7.1.1): "Now, as soon as the army had no more people to slay or to plunder, because there remained none to be objects of their fury (for they would not have spared any, had there remained any other such work to be done) [Titus] Caesar gave orders that they should now demolish the entire city and temple, but should leave as many of the towers standing as were of the greatest eminency; that is, Phasaelus, and Hippicus, and Mariamne, and so much of the wall as enclosed the city on the west side."
The 3rd century Greek author Philostratus wrote in "Life of Apollonius":
6.29: "After Titus had taken Jerusalem, and when the country all round was filled with corpses, the neighboring races offered him a crown; but he disclaimed any such honor to himself, saying that it was not himself that had accomplished this exploit, but that he had merely lent his arms to God, who had so manifested his wrath; and Apollonius praised his action, for therein he displayed a great deal of judgment and understanding of things human and divine, and it showed great moderation on his part that he refused to be crowned because he had shed blood."
Early Christian authors
Later early Christians authors would have written about these events.
In the 3th century, a Christian author named Origen wrote in "Against Celsus":
IV: "But according to Celsus,‘the Christians making certain additional statements to those of the Jews, assert that the Son of God has been already sent on account of the sins of the Jews; and that the Jews having chastised Jesus, and given him gall to drink, have brought upon themselves the divine wrath.’ And any one who likes may convict this statement of falsehood, if it be not the case that the whole Jewish nation was overthrown within one single generation after Jesus had undergone these sufferings at their hands. For forty and two years, I think, after the date of the crucifixion of Jesus, did the destruction of Jerusalem take place."
In the 4th century, a Christian author named Chrysostom wrote in "Homilies on Matthew":
Homily 76: "I should therefore be glad to inquire of the Jews. Whence came there thus upon them wrath from God intolerable"
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