24. "When the Son of Man comes, he will be like the lightning. It flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.
25. But first the Son of Man must suffer many things. He will not be accepted by the people of today.
26. "Remember how it was in the days of Noah. It will be the same when the Son of Man comes.
27. People were eating and drinking. They were getting married. They were giving their daughters to be married. They did all those things right 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. They were buying and selling. They were planting and building.
29. But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven. And all the people were destroyed.
30. "It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is shown to the world.