Luke 17:20-35

²⁰Being once asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, Jesus answered, “The kingdom of God does not come in a way that can be seen,

²¹nor will people say ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’; for the kingdom of God is within you!

²²The day will come,” he said to his disciples, “when you will long to see but one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see it.

²³People will say to you ‘There he is!’ Or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go and follow them.

²⁴For, just as lightning will lighten and flare from one side of the heavens to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man.

²⁵But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.

²⁶As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.

²⁷They were eating and drinking and marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, and then the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

²⁹but, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the skies and destroyed them all.

³⁰It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.

³¹On that day, if a person is on their house-top and their goods in the house, they must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.

³²Remember Lot's wife.

³³Whoever is eager to get the most out of their life will lose it; but whoever will lose it will preserve it.

³⁴On that night, I tell you, of two people on the same bed, one will be taken and the other left;

³⁵of two women grinding grain together, one will be taken and the other left.”