24. For like the lightning, that flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will the Son of Man be in His [own] day.
25. But first He must suffer many things and be disapproved and repudiated and rejected by this age and generation.
26. And [just] as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the time of the Son of Man.
27. [People] ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. [Gen. 6:5-8; 7:6-24.]
28. So also [it was the same] as it was in the days of Lot. [People] ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
29. But on the [very] day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed [them] all.
30. That is the way it will be on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. [Gen. 18:20-33; 19:24, 25.]