Mark 13:20

Easy To Read Version

But God has decided to make that terrible time short. If that time were not made short, then no person could continue living. But God will make that time short to help his special people that he has chosen.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:9

\{This is true,\} but the Lord All-Powerful did allow a few people to continue living. We were not completely destroyed like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. {\cf2\super [6]}

Isaiah 6:13

But a tenth of the people will be allowed to stay in the land. These people will return \{to the Lord\} even though they were to be destroyed. These people will be like an oak tree. When the tree is chopped down, a stump is left. This stump (the people remaining) is a very special seed.

Matthew 24:22

But God has decided to make that terrible time short. If that time were not made short, then no person would continue living. But God will make that time short to help the people he has chosen.

Mark 13:19

Why? Because those days will be full of much trouble. There will be more trouble than has ever happened since the beginning, when God made the world. And nothing as bad as that will ever happen again.

Mark 13:21

At that time, some person might say to you, ‘Look, there is the Christ {\cf2\super [186]} !’ Or another person might say, ‘There he is!’ But don’t believe them.