Matthew 24:20 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁰ And pray that it will not be in the winter or on a Sabbath day when you will have to flee [from the city]. [Note: Jewish Sabbath day restrictions on travel (only three-fifths of a mile) and city gate closures would make leaving the city nearly impossible].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath:

Common English Bible

²⁰ Pray that it doesn’t happen in winter or on the Sabbath day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ But pray that your flight may not be in winter, or on the Sabbath.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the sabbath.

Matthew 24:20 Cross References

Matthew 24:19

It will be too bad for those who are pregnant and who are nursing babies in those days.

Matthew 24:21

There will be great trouble [during these times], such as had never been from the beginning of time up to the present, or ever will be [in the days to come].

Acts 1:12

Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the place called “Mount of Olives,” which was about three-fourths of a mile from Jerusalem.