²⁷ For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

⁸ You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

²⁴ for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; 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 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

²⁸ Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

²⁹ but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

³⁰ It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

³¹ In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

³² Remember Lot's wife!

³³ Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

³⁴ I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left.

³⁵ There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left."

³⁶ {Some Greek manuscripts add: "Two will be in the field, the one taken, and the other left."}

³⁷ They answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."

³⁹ and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

³⁷ "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

² "But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap;

¹⁴ Yahweh will be seen over them; And his arrow will go flash like lightning; And the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, And will go with whirlwinds of the south.

³⁰ Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.

³ He sends it forth under the whole sky, And his lightning to the ends of the earth.

⁴ and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

³ As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"

²⁸ Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."

²⁰ Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."

³⁵ Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'