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13 All people will hate you because you follow me, but those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved.

14 “You will see ‘a blasphemous object that brings destruction’[a] standing where it should not be.” (You who read this should understand what it means.) “At that time, the people in Judea should run away to the mountains. 15 If people are on the roofs[b] of their houses, they must not go down or go inside to get anything out of their houses.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:14 ‘a blasphemous object that brings destruction’ Mentioned in Daniel 9:27; 12:11 (cf. Daniel 11:31).
  2. 13:15 roofs In Bible times houses were built with flat roofs. The roof was used for drying things such as flax and fruit. And it was used as an extra room, as a place for worship, and as a cool place to sleep in the summer.

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