Matthew 24:19-21

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹It will be a terrible time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children. ²⁰And pray that you won't have to escape in winter or on a Sabbath.^[a] ²¹^(A) This will be the worst time of suffering since the beginning of the world, and nothing this terrible will ever happen again.

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24.20 in winter or on a Sabbath: In Palestine the winters are cold and rainy and make travel difficult. The Jewish people were not allowed to travel much more than a kilometer on the Sabbath. For these reasons it was hard for them to escape from their enemies in the winter or on a Sabbath.