Mark 13:18

18 Pray that it will not be in 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 Those who are in the field should not turn back to get their coats.

17 "How horrible it will be for the women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days.

18 Pray that it will not be in winter.

19 It will be a time of misery that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and will certainly never happen again.

20 If the Lord does not reduce that time, no one will be saved. But those days will be reduced because of those whom God has chosen.