Luke 21:9

But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions ,.... Or seditions and tumults; "wars" may design the wars of the Romans, against the Jews; and the "commotions", or seditions, the internal troubles among themselves:

be not terrified ; as if the destruction of the nation, city, and temple, would be at once:

for these things must first come to pass, but the end is not by and by ; or "immediately". The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions leave out this last word, and read, as in See Gill on Matthew 24:6 .