14 This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the worldI as a testimony to all nations,y and then the end will come.z

THE GREAT TRIBULATION

15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation,J spoken of by the prophet Daniel,aa standing in the holy place”ab (let the reader understand), 16 “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. 17 A man on the housetopK must not come down to get things out of his house,ac 18 and a man in the field must not go back to get his coat. 19 Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days! 20 Pray that your escape may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. 21 For at that time there will be great distress,* ad the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again.