26 "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. |
27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. |
28 "It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. |
29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. |
30 "It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. |
31 On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. |
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33 Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. |
34 I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. |
35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left."4 17:35 Some manuscripts left. |
36 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. |
37 "Where, Lord?" they asked.
He replied, "Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather." |
