Mark 13:18

18 But pray ye that these things happen not 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 And let him that shall be in the field not turn back to take up his garment.

17 And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

18 But pray ye that these things happen not in winter.

19 For in those days shall be such tribulations as were not from the beginning of the creation which God created until now: neither shall be.

20 And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but, for the sake of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.