²¹ For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.^(A)

²² “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect^(B) those days will be shortened.

³⁷ As it was in the days of Noah,^(A) so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.