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What does Mark 13:18 mean?

"Pray that your flight won’t be in the winter."

— Mark 13:18 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

15

and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.

16

Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

17

But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!

18

Pray that your flight won’t be in the winter.

19

For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

20

Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

21

Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it.

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