20. Some of the Pharisees asked Jesus, “When will the kingdom of God come?”Jesus answered, “God’s kingdom is coming, but not in a way that you will be able to see with your eyes.
21. People will not say, ‘Look, God’s kingdom is here!’ or, ‘There it is!’ No, God’s kingdom is within you.”
22. Then Jesus said to his followers, “The time will come when you will want very much to see one of the days of the Son of Man. But you will not be able to see it.
23. People will say to you, ‘Look, there he is!’ or, ‘Look, here he is!’ Stay where you are; don’t go away and search.
24. “The Son of Man will come again. On the day he comes he will shine like lightning, which flashes across the sky and lights it up from one side to the other.
25. But first, the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the people of this time.
26. When the Son of Man comes again, it will be as it was when Noah lived.
27. In the time of Noah, people were eating, drinking, and getting married even on the day when Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and killed all the people.
28. It will be the same as during the time of Lot. Those people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building.
29. They were doing these things even on the day Lot left Sodom. Then fire and sulfur rained down from the sky and killed them all.
30. This is exactly how it will be when the Son of Man comes again.