23. Then people will say to you, ‘Look, there he is!’ or ‘Look, here he is!’ Do not go out or chase after them.
24. For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
25. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
27. People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
29. but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
30. It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
31. On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.
32. Remember Lot’s wife!
33. Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
34. I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.