19. But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
20. Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,
21. for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
22. Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
23. “Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Messiah,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.
24. For there will arise false messiahs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
25. “Behold, I have told you beforehand.
26. If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it.
27. For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.