That is, “various places.”

There was a series of major earthquakes between A.D. 31 and A.D. 70. The worst of these were in Crete (46 or 47), Rome (51), Phrygia (60), and Campania (63). Tacitus (Annals xvi. 10-13) also speaks of particularly severe hurricanes and storms in the year 65.

Textual evidence favors the omission (cf. p. 146) of this word.

 A particularly severe famine in Judea about A.D. 44 is alluded to in Acts 11:28. There were altogether four major famines during the reign of Claudius, A.D. 41-54.

 Jewish and Roman writers describe the period from A.D. 31-70 as a time of great calamities. These words of Christ were literally fulfilled in events prior to the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 (see DA 628, 629). The predictions concerning the “famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes” of v. 7 also doubtless refer primarily to the same period. Jesus specifically warned the early Christians not to consider the political strife, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes of that day as signs of the immediate “end” of the world (see on v. 3).