Mark 13:17

17 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

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 Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house.

16 And let no one in the field return for his cloak.

17 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

18 Pray that this will not occur in the winter.

19 For those will be days of tribulation unseen from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.