Luke 17:20–37

The Coming of the Kingdom

²⁰Being ^uasked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come, ^vHe answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable; ²¹no one will say, ^w‘Look here!’ or ‘There!’ For you see, the kingdom of God is among you.”

²²Then He told the disciples: “The days are coming ^xwhen you will long to see one of the days of the ^•Son of Man, but you won’t see it. ^y23They will say to you, ^z‘Look there!’ or ‘Look here!’ Don’t follow or run after them. ^a24For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in His day. ^b25But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ^c

²⁶“Just as it was in the days of Noah, ^dso it will be in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage ^euntil the day Noah boarded the ark, ^fand the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: ^gPeople went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building. ²⁹But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed ^hthem all. ³⁰It ⁱwill be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed. ^j31On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are in the house, must not come down to get them. Likewise the man who is in the field must not turn back. ³²Remember Lot’s wife! ^k33Whoever tries to make his ^•life secure ^lmwill lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. ⁿ³⁴I tell you, on that night ^otwo will be in one bed: One will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁵Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left. [³⁶Two will be in a field: One will be taken, and the other will be left.]” ^p

³⁷“Where, Lord?” ^qthey asked Him.

He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there also the vultures ^rwill be gathered.”