{Must needs come to pass} (dei genesthai). Already there
were outbreaks against the Jews in Alexandria, at Seleucia with
the slaughter of more than fifty thousand, at Jamnia, and
elsewhere. Caligula, Claudius, Nero will threaten war before it
finally comes with the destruction of the city and temple by
Titus in A.D. 70. Vincent notes that between this prophecy by
Jesus in A.D. 30 (or 29) and the destruction of Jerusalem there
was an earthquake in Crete (A.D. 46 or 47), at Rome (A.D. 51), at
Apamaia in Phrygia (A.D. 60), at Campania (A.D. 63). He notes
also four famines during the reign of Claudius A.D. 41-54. One of
them was in Judea in A.D. 44 and is alluded to in Ac 11:28 .
Tacitus (_Annals_ xvi. 10-13) describes the hurricanes and storms
in Campania in A.D. 65.
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