²² Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man,^(A) but you will not see it.^{(B) 23} People will tell you, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them.^{(C) 24} For the Son of Man in his day^[a] will be like the lightning,^(D) which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. ²⁵ But first he must suffer many things^(E) and be rejected^(F) by this generation.^(G)

²⁶ “Just as it was in the days of Noah,^(H) so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸ “It was the same in the days of Lot.^(I) People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. ²⁹ But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

³⁰ “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.^{(J) 31} On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.^{(K) 32} Remember Lot’s wife!^{(L) 33} Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.^{(M) 34} I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. ³⁵ Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”^{(N) [36] [b]}

³⁷ “Where, Lord?” they asked.

He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”^(O)