Mark 13 · Verse 18

Mark 13:18

And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
Mark 13:18, King James Version

Mark 13:18 in other translations

BSBPray that this will not occur in the winter.
WEBPray that your flight won’t be in the winter.
ASVAnd pray ye that it be not in the winter.
YLTand pray ye that your flight may not be in winter,
DARBYAnd pray that it may not be in winter time;
BBEAnd say a prayer that it may not be in the winter.
WebsterAnd pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.

What does Mark 13:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
18. And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter--making escape perilous, or tempting you to delay your flight. Matthew (Mt 24:20) adds, "neither on the sabbath day," when, from fear of a breach of its sacred rest, they might be induced to remain.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 13:14-23

The Jews in rebelling against the Romans, and in persecuting the Christians, hastened their own ruin apace. Here we have a prediction of that ruin which came upon them within less than forty years after this. Such destruction and desolation, that the like cannot be found in any history. Promises of power to persevere, and cautions against falling away, well agree with each other. But the more we consider these…

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Mark 13:18 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

προσεύχεσθεproseuchesthedo prayG4336
δὲdethenG1161
ἵναinathat itG2443
μὴmēnotG3361
γένηταιgenētaimay happenG1096
ἡhētheG3588
φυγὴphugēflightG5437
ὑμῶνhumōnof youG4771
χειμῶνος.cheimōnosin winter.G5494

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

  • Mark 13:17

    But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

  • Mark 13:18

    And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.

  • Mark 13:19

    For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

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Mark 13:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Orad pues, que no acontezca vuestra huída en invierno.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et priez que cela n’ait pas lieu en hiver;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Betet aber, daß es nicht im Winter geschehe;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Orate vero ut hieme non fiant.