18. Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
19. Then he said to the man, “Get up and go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
20. Now at one point the Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God was coming, so he answered, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed,
21. nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
22. Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
23. Then people will say to you, ‘Look, there he is!’ or ‘Look, here he is!’ Do not go out or chase after them.
24. For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
25. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
27. People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
29. but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.