25. and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.
26. `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;
27. they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;
28. in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;
29. and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.
30. `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;
31. in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;
32. remember the wife of Lot.
33. Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.
34. `I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
35. two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
36. two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.'