reasoning. “But are we to think that people in the tribulation will stop eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage? The emphasis in the words of Jesus does not fall upon a normal condition of life, but upon the unexpected suddenness of His advent to those who will be engaged otherwise than in watching for Him.”10 But this understanding does not adequately explain the text. First, Gundry wants the nature of “that day” to be sudden and unexpected only for the ones who are not watchful (the