21. Nor will they say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ For remember, the kingdom of God is within you.”
22. Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
23. They will say to you, ‘Look here,’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not follow after them.
24. For as the lightning flashes and lights up the heavens 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 will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
27. They were eating, drinking, marrying, and were given in marriage until the day when Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28. “Likewise as it was in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.