20. Pray that your escape will not happen in winter, or on Shabbat.
21. For then there will be great trouble, such as has not happened since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.
22. And unless those days were cut short, no one would be delivered. But for the sake of the chosen, those days will be cut short.
23. “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here’s the Messiah,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe it.
24. For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and show great signs and wonders so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.
25. See, I have told you beforehand.
26. “So if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. Or, ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.