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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars": reads like Jesus is warning specifically about false gossip and misinformation spreading before the end times
In the KJV, "rumour" simply meant a report or piece of news, true or false, not gossip presumed to be false.
Matthew 24:6, in every translation this tool compares.
Matthew 24:6 reads, "And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled." The word comes from Latin rumor, meaning "noise, common talk, a current report with or without foundation." It described news traveling by word of mouth, accurate or not, not the modern sense of a story assumed to be unverified or false.
Jesus is saying disciples will hear both of actual wars nearby and reports of wars happening elsewhere, and neither should shake them. He isn't singling out misinformation as a distinct sign; "rumour" here is just "news you've heard secondhand."
