Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.
Neither let him who is in the field return back to take his clothes.
Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloke.
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.
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.