Mark 13:17

17 And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

Mark 13:17 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 13:17

But woe to them that are with child
Who because of their burdens, would be very unfit for, and very incapable of fleeing with any haste; and therefore very liable to fall into the hands of the enemy, and become their prey:

and to them that give suck in those days;
who could not bear to leave their children behind, and yet would not be able to carry them with them; at least not without great trouble, and which would much retard their flight, and endanger their being taken by the enemy; (See Gill on Matthew 24:19).

Mark 13:17 In-Context

15 And let him who is on the house-top not go down, or go in, to take anything out of his house:

16 And let not him who is in the field go back to take his coat.

17 And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

18 And say a prayer that it may not be in the winter.

19 For in those days there will be sorrow, such as there has not been from the time when God made the world till now, and will not ever be again.