The Great Tribulation

¹⁵ “So when you see the abomination of desolation,^[a] spoken of by the prophet Daniel,^(A) standing in the holy place”^(B) (let the reader understand), ¹⁶ “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. ¹⁷ A man on the housetop^[b] must not come down to get things out of his house,^{(C) 18} and a man in the field must not go back to get his coat. ¹⁹ Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days! ²⁰ Pray that your escape may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. ²¹ For at that time there will be great distress,^[c](D) the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again.

²⁶ “Just as it was in the days of Noah,^(A) so it will be in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷ People went on eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage^(B) until the day Noah boarded the ark,^(C) and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot:^(D) People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building. ²⁹ But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed^(E) them all. ³⁰ It^(F) will be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.^(G)