Matthew 24:20

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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].

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.