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Probably because the conditions are more harsh at that time of year and it would be harder to survive. The other seasons, the temp is more moderate. .
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Geneva Study Bible
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the {h} sabbath day:
(h) It was not lawful to take a journey on the sabbath day; Josephus, book 13.
People's New Testament
24:20 Be not in the winter. Because the streams were then impassable torrents from the heavy rains and the weather cold and wet, hard on homeless people.
Neither on the sabbath. Because then the gates of the city were closed, preventing departure. History tells us that the army of Cestius Gallus enclosed Jerusalem in A.D. 67, then deterred by its strength, retired to Caesarea. This was the signal for which the church waited, and it then fled beyond the Jordan.
Wesley's Notes
24:20 Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter - They did so; and their flight was in the spring. Neither on the Sabbath - Being on many accounts inconvenient; beside that many would have scrupled to travel far on that day. For the Jews thought it unlawful to walk above two thousand paces (two miles) on the Sabbath day
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