Mark 13:18

18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.

Mark 13:18 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 13:18

And pray ye that your flight be not in winter.
] When days are short, roads bad, the weather inclement; and when to lodge in mountains, is very incommodious, and uncomfortable. The Persic version adds, "neither on the sabbath day"; (See Gill on Matthew 24:20).

Mark 13:18 In-Context

16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again to take up his garment.

17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days.

18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.

19 For [in] those days shall be affliction, such as hath not been from the beginning of the creation which God created to this time, neither shall be.

20 And except the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.