16. Those in the field shouldn’t come back to grab their clothes.
17. How terrible it will be at that time for women who are pregnant and for women who are nursing their children.
18. Pray that it doesn’t happen in winter.
19. In those days there will be great suffering such as the world has never before seen and will never again see.
20. If the Lord hadn’t shortened that time, no one would be rescued. But for the sake of the chosen ones, the ones whom God chose, he has cut short the time.
21. “Then if someone says to you, ‘Look, here’s the Christ,’ or ‘There he is,’ don’t believe it.