20. Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, “God’s Kingdom doesn’t come with observation;
21. neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”
22. He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
23. They will tell you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away or follow after them,
24. for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; 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. As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.
27. They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28. Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
29. but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulpher from the sky and destroyed them all.