Mark 13:16

Those who are working in a field must not return to their houses in order to get additional clothes before they flee.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.

In Context

15Those people who are outside their houses must not enter their houses in order to get anything before they run away.

17But I feel very sorry for women who will be pregnant and women who will be nursing their babies in those days, because it will be very difficult for them to run away

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Matthew Henry on Mark 13:15-24

The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. 14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains: 15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: 16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. 17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give… Read the whole commentary →

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