Old/New Testament

²⁰ The Pharisees asked Jesus, `When will the kingdom of God come?' He answered them, `You cannot see the kingdom of God when it comes.

²¹ People will not be able to say, "Look, here it is!" or "There it is! That is because the kingdom of God is inside you.'

²² Jesus said to his disciples, `The time will come when you will want to see one of the days of the Son of Man. But you will not see it.

²³ People will say to you, "Look! Here he is!" or "Look! There he is!" But do not go out or follow them.

²⁴ When lightning comes, it lights up the whole sky. It will be like that on the day when the Son of Man comes.

²⁵ But first he will have much trouble. The people who are living now will not believe in him.

²⁶ `The way it was in the time of Noah is the way it will be in the time of the Son of Man.

²⁷ People ate and drank. They married and gave their daughters to be married. All this went on until the day when Noah went into his house built on a boat. Then there was much water and all the people outside the boat died.

²⁸ `It was the same way in the time of Lot. People ate and drank. They bought and sold. They planted and built.

²⁹ Then one day Lot went out of the city of Sodom. Then on that day fire and burning rock came down from the sky and killed all the people.

³⁰ `That is the way it will be on the day when the Son of Man is seen.

³¹ On that day a man will be at the top of his house, and his things will be below. But he must not go down to get his things. In the same way a man will be in the field, but he must not go back home.

³² Remember what happened to Lot's wife.

³³ Anyone who wants to keep his life will lose it. And anyone who gives up his life will keep it.

³⁴ `I tell you, on that night two people may be in one bed. One will be taken away and the other will be left.

³⁵ Two women will be making flour together. One woman will be taken away and the other woman will be left.

³⁶ Two men will be in a field. One man will be taken away and the other man will be left.'

³⁷ They asked him, `Where will this be, Lord?' He said, `The big birds that eat meat will go to the place where the dead body is.'