The Coming of the Kingdom

²⁰Being asked by the Pharisees uwhen the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God vis not coming in ways that can be observed, ²¹nor wwill they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”8

²²And he said to the disciples, x“The days are coming when you will desire yto see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ²³zAnd they will say to you, ‘Look, there!’ or ‘Look, here!’ Do not go out or follow them. ²⁴aFor as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be bin his day.9 ²⁵But first che must suffer many things and cbe rejected by this generation. ²⁶dJust as it was in the days of eNoah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷fThey were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸Likewise, just as it was in the days of gLot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, ²⁹hbut on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— ³⁰so will it be ion the day when the Son of Man is revealed. ³¹On that day, jlet the one who is on kthe housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. ³²lRemember Lot's wife. ³³mWhoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will nkeep it. ³⁴I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. ³⁵oThere will be two women pgrinding together. One will be taken and the other left.”10 ³⁷And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, q“Where the corpse11 is, there the vultures12 will gather.”

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