23. And they will say to you, 'Behold, he is here,' and 'Behold, he is there.' Do not choose to go out, and do not follow them.
24. For just as lightning flashes from under heaven and shines to whatever is under heaven, so also will the Son of man be in his day.
25. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26. And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of man.
27. They were eating and drinking; they were taking wives and being given in marriage, even until the day that Noah entered the ark. And the flood came and destroyed them all.
28. It shall be similar to what happened in the days of Lot. They were eating and drinking; they were buying and selling; they were planting and building.
29. Then, on the day that Lot departed from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and it destroyed them all.
30. According to these things, so shall it be in the day when the Son of man will be revealed.