^40 (A)Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

^48 (A)But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and ^[a]fared sumptuously every day. ²⁰ But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, ²¹ desiring to be fed with ^[b]the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. ²² So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to ^(A)Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁴ “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and ^(B)cool my tongue; for I ^(C)am tormented in this flame.’ ²⁵ But Abraham said, ‘Son, ^(D)remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. ²⁶ And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’

²² Then He said to the disciples, ^(A)“The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ^23 (B)And they will say to you, ^[a]‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after them or follow them. ^24 (C)For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. ^25 (D)But first He must suffer many things and be ^(E)rejected by this generation. ^26 (F)And as it ^(G)was in the ^(H)days of ^(I)Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the ^(J)day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and ^(K)destroyed them all. ^28 (L)Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹ but on ^(M)the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man ^(N)is revealed.

³¹ “In that day, he ^(O)who is on the housetop, and his ^[b]goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. ^32 (P)Remember Lot’s wife. ^33 (Q)Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. ^34 (R)I tell you, in that night there will be two ^[c]men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. ^35 (S)Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. ^36 [d]Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”

³⁷ And they answered and said to Him, ^(T)“Where, Lord?”

So He said to them, “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”

²⁷ Then they will see the Son of Man ^(A)coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ²⁸ Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because ^(B)your redemption draws near.”