²⁰Now when he^* was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with things that can be observed,^f ²¹nor will they say, ‘Behold, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

The Coming of the Son of Man

²²And he said to the disciples, “Days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.^* ²³And they will say to you, ‘Behold, there!’ ‘Behold, here!’^g Do not go out or run after them!^* ²⁴For just as the lightning shines forth, flashing from one place under heaven to another place under heaven, so the Son of Man will be in his day. ²⁵But first it is necessary for him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation. ²⁶And just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man—²⁷they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. ²⁹But on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰It will be just the same^h on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. ³¹On that day, whoever is on the housetop and his goods are in the house must not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back. ³²Remember Lot’s wife! ³³Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it^* will keep it. ³⁴I tell you that in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁵There will be two women^* grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.”ⁱ

³⁷And they answered and^* said to him, “Where, Lord?” So he said to them, “Where the dead body is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”

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Footnotes

*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was asked”) which is understood as temporal
fLiterally “observation”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
gSome manuscripts have “ ‘Behold, there!’ or ‘Behold, here!’ ”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
hLiterally “according to the same”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “women” is supplied because the form (“two”) is feminine gender in Greek
iA few manuscripts add v. 36 (with some variations): “There will be two in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb