17 Those on the roof shouldn’t come down to grab things from their houses.
18 Those in the field shouldn’t come back to grab their clothes.
19 How terrible it will be at that time for women who are pregnant and for women who are nursing their children.
20 Pray that it doesn’t happen in winter or on the Sabbath day.
21 There will be great suffering such as the world has never before seen and will never again see.
22 If that time weren’t shortened, nobody would be rescued. But for the sake of the ones whom God chose, that time will be cut short.
23 “Then if somebody says to you, ‘Look, here’s the Christ,’ or ‘He’s over here,’ don’t believe it.