Matthew 24:18
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
American Standard Version (ASV)
and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.
Webster's Revision
Neither let him who is in the field return back to take his clothes.
World English Bible
Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
English Revised Version (ERV)
and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloke.
Definitions for Matthew 24:18
Clarke's Matthew 24:18 Bible Commentary
Neither let him which is in the field return back - Because when once the army of the Romans sits down before the city, there shall be no more any possibility of escape, as they shall never remove till Jerusalem be destroyed.
Barnes's Matthew 24:18 Bible Commentary
Return back to take his clothes - His clothes which, in "working," He had laid aside, or which, in fleeing, he should throw off as an encumbrance. "Clothes" here means the "outer" garment, commonly laid aside when men worked or ran. See the notes at Matthew 5:40.
These directions were followed. It is said that the Christians, warned by these predictions, fled from Jerusalem to Pella, and other places beyond the Jordan; so that there is not evidence that a single "Christian" perished in Jerusalem - Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., lib. 3 chapter 6.
