32. “The fig tree teaches us a lesson: When its branches become green and soft, and new leaves begin to grow, then you know that summer is near.
33. So also, when you see all these things happening, you will know that the time is near, ready to come.
34. I tell you the truth. All these things will happen while the people of this time are still living!
35. The whole world, earth and sky, will be destroyed, but the words I have said will never be destroyed!
36. “No one knows when that day or time will be. Even the Son and the angels in heaven don’t know. Only the Father knows.
37. When the Son of Man comes, it will be the same as what happened during Noah’s time.
38. In those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking. They were marrying and giving their children to be married. They were still doing those things until the day Noah entered the boat.
39. They knew nothing about what was happening. But then the flood came, and all those people were destroyed. It will be the same when the Son of Man comes.
40. Two men will be working together in the field. One man will be taken and the other left.
41. Two women will be grinding grain with a hand mill. One woman will be taken and the other will be left.