Matthew 24:20
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
KJV
προσεύχεσθε δὲ ἵνα μὴ γένηται ἡ φυγὴ ὑμῶν χειμῶνος μηδὲ σαββάτῳ·
Greek NT
Orate autem ut non fiat fuga vestra in hieme, vel sabbato :
Vulgate
And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath:
ASV
But pray that your flight be not in the winter or on the sabbath.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μηδέ
mede
conjunction · 54×
προσεύχομαι
proseuchomai
verb · 85×
σάββατον
sabbaton
noun · 68×
φυγή
phuge
noun · 1×
χειμών
cheimon
noun · 6×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. But whom does He here mean by the elect? The believers that were shut up in the midst of them. For that Jews may not say that because of the gospel, and the worship of Christ, these ills took place, He shows, that so far from the believers being the cause, if it had not been for them, all had perished utterly. For if God had permitted the war to be protracted, not so much as…
Cross-references
- Acts 1:12 — Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.
- Exod 16:29 — See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.