New Testament in a Year

²⁰ The Coming of the Kingdom of God.^[a] Once, the Pharisees asked him when the kingdom of God was coming. He answered, “The coming of the kingdom of God will not occur with signs that can be observed. ²¹ Nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

²² The Day of the Son of Man.^[b] Then he said to his disciples, “The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ²³ People will say to you, ‘Look, there he is,’ or ‘Look, here he is.’ Do not go running after them. ²⁴ For just as lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. ²⁵ But first he must endure great suffering and be rejected by this generation.

²⁶ “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day that Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed all of them. ²⁸ “The same thing happened in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. ²⁹ But on the day that Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed all of them.

³⁰ “It will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. ³¹ On that day, the one who is standing on the roof, with his possessions inside, must not come down to collect them, and someone who is in the field must not turn back. ³² Remember Lot’s wife. ³³ Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will save it.

³⁴ “I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁵ And there will be two women grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left. [ ³⁶ Two men will be out in the field. One will be taken and the other will be left.]”^[c]

³⁷ They asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said in reply, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”