Mark 13:18

18 Pray that this will not happen 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 No one in the field should go back to get his coat.

17 How awful it will be in those days for pregnant women! How awful for nursing mothers!

18 Pray that this will not happen in winter.

19 "Those days will be worse than any others from the time God created the world until now. And there will never be any like them again.

20 If the Lord had not cut the time short, no one would live. But because of God's chosen people, he has shortened it.