Markos 13:18

18 But daven tefillos that it may not occur in khoref (winter).

Markos 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).

Markos 13:18 In-Context

16 And the one in the sadeh (field) let him not turn back to get his kaftan.

17 And oy to the ones with child and the ones with nursing infants in those days.

18 But daven tefillos that it may not occur in khoref (winter).

19 For in those days will be Tzarah Gedolah (Great Tribulation) of such a kind as has not happened from [the] Reshit Yedei HaBriah (Beginning of the Days of Creation) which Hashem created until now, and never again will be. [DANIEL 9:26; 12:1; YOEL 2:2]

20 And unless Hashem makes those yamim shortened, no one would be delivered in the Yeshuat Eloheinu. But for the sake of the Bechirim, whom Hashem chose, he shortened the yamim.