Mat 24:16-17 | RWP | e4.org | Flee unto the mountains ( φευγετωσαν εις τα ορη ). The mountains east of the Jordan. Eusebius ( H.E. iii,5,3) says that the Christians actually fled to Pella at the foot of the mountains about seventeen miles south of the Sea of Galilee. They remembered the warning of Jesus and fled for safety.

‏ Matthew 24:16-17

Flee unto the mountains ( φευγετωσαν εις τα ορη ). The mountains east of the Jordan. Eusebius (H.E. iii,5,3) says that the Christians actually fled to Pella at the foot of the mountains about seventeen miles south of the Sea of Galilee. They remembered the warning of Jesus and fled for safety.

On the housetop ( επ του δωματος ). They could escape from roof to roof and so escape, "the road of the roofs," as the rabbis called it. There was need for haste.